Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and ...

Allusion to the Poets by Christopher Ricks 345pp, Oxford, £20 Many professors of English, who were once compelled to study Paradise Lost, The Dunciad and In Memoriam, not to mention Practical ...

I first met the poet Rachel Wetzsteon at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 1994. She seemed lively, chatty, and yet, by the second day of the conference, already somewhat isolated, sitting in a ...