On World Poetry Day (21 March), as I was preparing to read a poem out loud to be recorded, so that it could be posted on some of the most...

Laetitia Pilkington was no ordinary woman. Pilkington's extraordinariness was rather conspicuous, especially in the Libertine age or...

When reading or listening to his poems, one could easily wonder if there ever lived a poet who loved Mother Earth as fervently as this...

The tenth century poet Abu Al Tayyeb Al Mutanabbi is one of the greatest world poets, who wrote in Arabic. His poems are riddled with...

Had we began our conservation drive, at least, as early as Thoreau had insisted upon it our young activist Greta Thunberg could have...

A travel enthusiast who toured most of the Arab world in search of religious and linguistic knowledge including Gaza, Cairo, Mecca,...

War poetry, as a genre, is hugely popular. These poems vividly paint the trauma, the pain, the loss, the atrocities and every nightmare...

The glad demeanour and mischievous tones in Hunt's most shared and well known poems must come from the cheerful, sensitive and perceptive...

Kumaran Asan was awarded the title Mahakavi (great poet), by Madras University in 1922. When the evils of caste system had cast its...

Although celebrated as one of the greatest playwrights, Schiller is first a poet. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German...

क्यों इस राशन के युग में, पानी बेकार बहाऊँ मैं? [In this era of extreme scarcity Why must I let water run out?] Quite serious an issue!...

The first poet featured here on O, John Wilmot, was the second Earl of Rochester. A libertine, the Earl was infamous for his waywardness...