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William Wordsworth: The Poet of Walks and Memory
A profile of William Wordsworth, from the Lake District to Lyrical Ballads, and why his poems of memory still feel fresh.
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Walt Whitman and the Poem That Never Stopped Growing
Whitman never finished Leaves of Grass; he kept rewriting it until he died in 1892. Here's what changed and where to begin.
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Rumi Beyond the Quote Card: What to Know First
Much of the Rumi in English is looser than you'd think. A guide to the translation problem and how to read him with open eyes.
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Robert Frost and the Road People Misread
Everyone quotes the last line, but the two roads in Frost's poem are 'really about the same.' Here's what the poem is doing.
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Mirza Ghalib: The Delhi Poet Who Never Fit In
Mirza Ghalib, the great Urdu poet of Delhi: his troubled life, his ghazals and his letters, with tips on where to start.
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Langston Hughes: The Poet of Harlem and Rivers
Langston Hughes, from the train-ride poem about rivers to the blues of Harlem, and why his plain style still lasts.
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Emily Dickinson: Why Her Short Poems Still Hit Hard
Four lines of Dickinson can leave you staring at the wall. Here's how her dashes, images and hymn rhythms do the work.
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Allama Iqbal: Poet, Philosopher and Voice of Selfhood
A guide to Allama Iqbal: his education, his Urdu and Persian poetry, the idea of khudi and where new readers should begin.