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Robert Pinsky
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky is Slate's poetry editor. His Selected Poems is now available.
Articles By Robert Pinsky
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Something From Nothing
Poets like John Wilmot cut their world down to size with wit—then built it up again in art.
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Sex, Violence, and the Supernatural
Before the tabloids, there were the folk ballads.
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Labor Pains
Michelangelo's poem about the awkward parturition of the Sistine Chapel.
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"A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall"
Robert Herrick's yuletide tribute to the lush pleasures of spring.
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Always With the Complaining!
Meet Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick, poetry's most artful kvetches.
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Conversation Piece
Why so much casual talk in Yeats' brilliant poem "Adam's Curse"?
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In Nomine Patris et Felis
Christopher Smart's extremely spiritual poem about his cat.
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