It appeared last week as The New York Sun’s Poem of the Day. But quick on Shakespeare’s heels comes “To Autumn,” the last of the astonishing run of odes John Keats (1795–1821) wrote in 1819. Keats has ...

Well, today, we turn to poetry to mark the seasonal ... WRIGHT: "Ancient Of Days" - OK. (Reading) There is a kind of sunlight, in early autumn, at sundown, that raises cloud reflections inches ...

But as a young man, in his twenties and thirties, Scudder Middleton proved a genuinely good poet. Today’s Poem of the Day, “Song in the Key of Autumn,” published in the Century in 1920, exhibits the ...

MacLean bears witness to the death of comrades but there is no glory in An Autumn Day. This is a sombre poem that dwells of the destruction of war. War is shown as horrifying, chaotic and ...

Keats’s celebrated ode brims with close and loving observation of nature, down to the robin’s return to singing, a sure indicator of the changing season.

In An Autumn Day Maclean reflects on the reality of that war from his personal experience. The poem could be taken to express the random and futile nature of war and to consider death and the ...