Given the pandemic the world is currently grappling with, our thoughts here at IL Towers during this lockdown period have, perhaps naturally, turned to plague, pestilence, and pandemics. How did poets of previous generations deal with, and respond to, plague and mass illness? How are poets of today writing about […]
Change is a topic that has fascinated poets for many centuries, whether it’s literal or physical metamorphosis (which the Roman poet Ovid wrote a whole epic poem about), a change in social attitudes, or the way lovers in a relationship change in their affections. Below, we introduce ten of the […]
Until now, we’ve largely been concerned with selecting some of the best poems by famous poets – everyone from Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney, Coleridge to Carol Ann Duffy. But since Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, after literary critics like Sir Christopher Ricks had championed […]