The poem’s fourth line — “Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang” — is, if not the outright winner, at least a strong contender for the best poetic line ever rendered in English. Sonnet ...

TO complete our Shakespeare sequence, here, on the four-hundredth anniversary of his death, are two of his most dazzling sonnets, dealing, as ever, with love and mortality.

Listen to reading on Performance on 3 19:00 - 21:15 1 sonnet 73 That time of year thou mayst in me behold nb The readings from the 2009 poetry season are no longer available. Listen to ...

Though prominent as a diarist, journalist, and activist for various causes, she also published many poems and short stories, beginning with “Violets and Other Tales,” which appeared when she was ...