Romantic poet William Wordsworth defied the stereotypes by living merrily to a ripe old age. His poetry-writing career ...

‘There is not a particle of life that does not bear poetry within it’—Gustave Flaubert I read this quote to the small group of assisted living residents who had signed up for my weekly poetry writing ...

AMARANTH—Edwin Arlington Robinson—Macmillan ($2). POEMS—Stephen Spender—Random House ($1.50). POEM—W. H. Auden—Random House ($2.50). Modern poetry, like experimental science, is always precocious to ...