Join Sherri Mitchell and Robert Seufert for a free performance of poetry and song from the British Isles at Jacksonville ...

The BBC is launching a nationwide search to find a British poem to rival Wordsworth's Daffodils or Kipling's If. It aims to come up with a winning entry which will reflect modern Britain and be ...

This attitude was clearly expressed in Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The White Man's Burden." Kipling spent his childhood in India and shared the British perception of the Englishman's place in the world.

The stanzas recount the Battle of Baltimore, a days-long siege between British and American forces. The poem was set to a tune called “The Anacreontic Song,” which was composed in the late ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge at age 42, photo: Library of Congress One of the earliest British poems praising Kościuszko comes from that important herald of English Romanticism Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has been discovered after hundreds of years. Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ...

As part of We British: An Epic In Poetry, Radio 4 reclaimed this ode to the nation with help from our dedicated listeners. Radio 4 listener Sally Castle sent us this beautiful linocut. At 12:03 on ...

A small business owner has written a poem highlighting the challenges facing shops in his home town, and encouraging locals to use them. Topher Chard's poem is about Newquay, where he runs two ...

Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack on a British trench during the First World War. They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by ...