A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...
Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy, Second Edition John Dunn Why does democracy—as a word and as an idea—loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused ...
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
DUNNE, JOHN (JACK) F. John F. Dunne, age 75, of Westminster. Husband of Catherine (Kay) Dunne; father of Jane (Paul) Dunne Burke, James (Wendy) Dunne, Jennifer (Jeffery) Miller; grandfather of ...
John Burnside (1955-2024) was a prize-winning poet, critic and novelist, and the New Statesman’s nature columnist. A personal story of myth, memory, Scotland and the longing for community. If the ...