Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the torture of yearning. The Greek poet Sappho knew this even 2,600 years ago. Women ...

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When the young Philip Larkin – mole-like ... deprivation – tend to be seen as wholly characteristic of Larkin’s poetry, and one can, reviewing his life and work, understand why this view pertains.

Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a poet whose graceful and careful work made him one of the most cherished writers of Northern Ireland and, for some, the English-reading world.

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But while our love of the countryside is thought ... Schama looks at the work of writer Philip Larkin, in particular his extraordinary poem Going, Going, and the rapid transformation of Britain ...

Do we ever forget our first love? It's a question occupying the minds of some people on the internet. The "men's first love theory," the idea that men don't get over their first love, has left ...