Each word carries a story, but not all words are imbued with emotional or cultural significance. One such word is “epitaph.” The word epitaph is greater than a mere word; it is a tribute, a memory, ...

A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s ...

The poet John Keats died, horribly, two hundred years ago this month, his lungs so ravaged by tuberculosis that the doctors in Rome who carried out the autopsy couldn't understand how he had breathed ...

Robert Fergusson (1750-1774) was a Scottish poet who towards the end of his life suffered from mental health problems and died in Edinburgh bedlam. Although his life was short his poems were published ...

Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller’s “Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.” By Robert Pinsky When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

This is an epitaph by Robert Burns. It is read here by Gerda Stevenson. This is a mock epitaph for William Muir (1745-1793), a miller in Tarbolton who proved to be a good friend to the Burnes family.

Critic Miller (The Brontë Myth) considers the life of English poet John Keats (1795–1821) via nine of his poems in this detailed and original study. Melding biography, close reading, and personal ...