One of the great joys of the recent Burns Supper I attended in Scotland was listening to a sung version of O My Luve is Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns. It has to be one of the greatest love poems in our language. Read more
Charles Dickens was fond of animals and cared for several pets throughout his life. One of them found literary fame in his novel Barnaby Rudge. Read more
My choice of poem this month is a sad and rather unusual one by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1867 – 1935), an American poet and playwright, who won the Pulitzer Prize three times. Read more
