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TLS Poetry
Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva
Rachel Polonsky
A fine new study casts light on the friendship and imaginative worlds of "the boy poet" and "the girl muse"
A new Aeneid for the 21st century
Richard Jenkyns
Robert Fagles produces a sensitive, intelligent rendering of Virgil for our times
Fenton on love
Lavinia Greenlaw
The best love poems are those in which we can watch the poet being seduced by the poem.
Unpublished translations by Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
Hughes's previously unpublished translations of Mário de Sá Carneiro, Paul Eluard, Lorenzo de Medici and Federico García Lorca.
Sillyhow Stride
Paul Muldoon
A poem in memory of Warren Zevon
Seamus Heaney's measurements
William Wootten
Commonplaces of the underworld
The primacy of A. D. Hope
Clive James
Why he was, and still is, "the governor"
Elizabeth Bishop's hard-earned mastery
Adam Kirsch
Good pickings from a perfectionist poet
Dear rivals
Craig Raine
From Robert Lowell to his friends, lovers, fellow poets and posterity
A new Sappho poem
Sappho
A new translation by Martin West
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