Finally a biography of John Donne that captures his eccentricities ... that she offers corrections to the hackneyed interpretations of the split between Donne’s love poetry and his spiritual poetry as ...

Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deny'st me is; It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be; Thou knowest that this cannot ...

Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den? 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be. If ever any ...

A rare book of 17th century poetry worth nearly £4,000 has “vanished” in Oxford, leaving a collector with a mystery on his ...

The event featured a reading by poet and lecturer Cintia Santana, as well as brief presentations by a panel of graduate students on poetry they resonate with.

A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea ...

Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den? 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.