Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an intensely public poet and an intensely private man. His own griefs, and they were considerable, barely make an appearance in all the large body of his ...

And wild and sweet the words repeat, of peace on earth, goodwill to men. As we navigate this frantic season, and as we shake collective heads at collected headlines, I’d like to pause a moment and ...

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) was an example of a kind of American — particularly Southern — poetic sense and learnedness that nearly captured literary America from the 1930s to the 1950s. These were ...