Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

During the Victorian era, the concept of floriography, or the language of flowers, grew. So, what message do you want to send ...

Understanding of these four parts [breasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb] has changed over time—positing at some times that ...

Before his death, Valentine wrote a letter to the jailer’s daughter, signing it “From your Valentine.” But it is Geoffrey ...

They entered the spring-time of my life like the composite rhythm of a poem. To my surprise ... describes the significance of the virtue of purity for many Catholics at that time.

Yet for all the scorn heaped upon it, purity culture is not the most pressing threat today. Even if it proved ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Gorman cautions parents to be awake to the rise in book bans across the country, which will primarily impact children of middle and low-income families.

bouquet on a chopping-board in Cork, watched from the window by a star. There were no corners on the moon, but the nightingales were awesome being altogether not there. I scale back the skin with ...