Burns sent 'Ode to Spring' to George Thomson, the editor of A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs (1793-1818), in January 1795. Burns claimed that he was challenged by an acquaintance to ...

If you fancied knowing all of the words from the poem from the the Wet Wet Wet frontman's emotional Hogmanay video, which ...

In the first episode of their new Close Readings series on political poetry, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ by Andrew Marvell, described by ...