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Does my first memory of Robert Louis Stevenson's work come from reading one of his stories or poems, or from hearing something of his read aloud? I am not sure [...]

The Letters of Seamus Heaney selected and edited by Christopher Reid; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 848 pp., $45 One St. Patrick's Day in the early 1980s, I met Seamus Heaney [...]

Penelope Fitzgerald was born in 1916 into a distinguished family of Church of England clergy, thinkers, writers, and editors characterized by what her biographer, Hermione Lee, calls 'alarming honesty, caustic [...]

On Jersey Breaks by Robert Pinsky. Among the premier poets of our period, it's hard to think of anyone who has embraced the role of civic poet so wholeheartedly and [...]

Parallel to his life's work as a lyric poet, William Butler Yeats was active on several tracks. Though he was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy, he organized opposition to [...]