Why do we humans make and listen to poetry? “The world is charged with the grandeur of God” — everything in it is worthy of our attention. A poet fixes our gaze on some God-created being or experience ...

Reach her, about must, and about must go, And what the hill’s suddenness resists, win so. These lines from the third of John Donne’s satires, written sometime in the 1590s, express and enact ...