What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might find in a poetry book? Maybe something by Poe or Dickinson?

(1609) Sonnet 116 is arguably one of the most famous love-themed poems ever written. In this poem, Shakespeare shows that true love is unchanging, persistent and eternal. He even refers to love as ...

No list of famous poems would be complete without a contribution ... read by Sir Ian McKellen Some of the most powerful poetry ever written was in response to the horrors of the First World ...

“A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A the better to read B (we have to start somewhere; we may get very little out of A). We read B the better to read ...

As one of the very best contemporary writers about the natural world, her poems here are vividly alive to landscape and weather, and use a haiku-like precision to home in on detail. Whaup reads ...