The greatest rhymes of Ogden Nash The great American comic poet Ogden Nash (1902-71) can wrote a great number of short poems, though they were not all classics. However, at his finest, Nash is a comic genius who can achieve that rare thing: to evince audible laughter from the reader. […]
The best E. E. Cummings poems selected by Dr Oliver Tearle E. E. Cummings – or, following the American poet’s own idiosyncratic way of styling himself, ‘e. e. cummings’ – was one of the greatest and most original voices in twentieth-century American poetry. He also wrote some of the most […]
Thanksgiving, like Christmas and Easter, is an important holiday and a time when families, friends, and communities can come together to celebrate. For the United States, ‘Thanksgiving’ has a particular significance, so in the selection of classic poems below, we’ve included some of the very best poems specifically about the […]