Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost ... of mood and saved some part of a day I had rued. LIMBONG: Why do you think he published that poem and not "Nothing New"?

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Reading a poem by Robert Hass is like stepping into the ocean ...

The Civil War began on this day in 1861 ... tangible local legacy that Robert Lowell confronts in “For the Union Dead,” from our November 1960 issue. In the poem he considers one of Boston ...

Stopping to reconsider the most famous seasonal poem about stopping to reconsider. By Elisa Gabbert Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know.

were penned by Robert Frost in 1922, the opening line of one of America’s most revered and recited poems, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” And on New Year’s Day, they entered the ...

Robert Burns (1759–1796) has appeared once before in the Sun’s Poem of the Day feature, but in these wintery days, it seems worth adding another. “Winter: A Dirge” is an early Burns poem, probably ...