An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in Wiltshire ...

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.

Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds. Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted.

A one-man show that re-creates Die Hard in rhyme and is also a rom-com: That’s the gist of British playwright-poet Richard Marsh’s takeoff on the iconic 1988 Bruce Willis action flick.

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 ...

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Robert Seufert and Sherri Mitchell will showcase poetry and songs from the British Isles at Jacksonville Public Library.