The Daily Poem
Episodes
Robert Louis Stevenson's "To Any Reader"
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel ...
John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The English writer and Anglican cleric John Donne is considered now to be the preeminent metaphysical poet of his time. He was born in 1572 to Roman C...
Barbara Ras' "Margin of Error"
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Barbara Ras was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and has lived in Costa Rica, Colombia, California, and Texas. She is the author of The Last Skin ...
Malcolm Guite's "Michaelmas"
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ayodeji Malcolm Guite (/ɡaɪt/; born 12 November 1957) is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. Born in Nigeria to Briti...
Ogden Nash's Verses for The Carnival of the Animals
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During his lifetime, Ogden Nash (born August 19, 1902; died May 19, 1971) was the most widely known, appreciated, and imitated American creator of lig...
Two for Guy Fawkes Day
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Remember, Remember – November 5 was Guy Fawkes Day, an occasion full of complicated remembrances. We mark the day with a traditional English lyric a...
Robert B. Shaw's "Chronometrics"
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We will turn the clocks back this weekend–in fact, many clocks will turn themselves back–and there is no better occasion to meditate with Robert B...
Wallace Stevens' "Of the surface of things"
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stevens moved to Connecticut in 1916, having found employment at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., where he became vice president in 1934. He h...
Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Billy Collins spent his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate launching the Poetry 180 initiative to increase American high school students’ exposure to poet...
Robert B. Shaw's "Jack O'Lantern"
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Poet and critic Robert B. Shaw earned a BA from Harvard University, where he studied with Robert Lowell, and a PhD from Yale University. Influenced by...
E.E. Cummings' "i thank You God for most this amazing day"
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Estlin (E.E.) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended the Cambridge Latin High School, where he studied Latin and Greek. Cum...
Dylan Thomas' "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Dylan Marlais Thomas, born October 27, 1914 in the Welsh seaport of Swansea, Wales. Thomas attended the Swansea Grammar School, w...
Christine Perrin's "Reading Telemachus"
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Perrin is the director of writing at Messiah College and has taught literature and creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, with Gordo...
The Saint Crispin's Day Speech
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today being St. Crispin’s Day, it seems only right to share, once again, one of the most famous speeches in English literature—Henry V’s “Cris...
Carl Sandburg's "Mummy"
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967), an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Puli...
"The Death of Nelson"
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by an anonymous poet but it artfully commemorates the life and death of a great historical figure. This is a public episode. If you...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/ˈkoʊlərɪdʒ/ KOH-lə-rij;[1] 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834), an English poet, literary critic, ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tide Rises, Tide Falls"
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere...
Dana Gioia's "Metamorphosis"
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Michael Dana Gioia (/ˈdʒɔɪ.ə/; born December 24, 1950), an American poet, literary critic, literary translator, and essayist...
Two by Oscar Wilde
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poems are by Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde[a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900), an Irish poet and playwright. After writing i...
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889), an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame places him amon...
Theodore Roethke's "Root Cellar"
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ˈrɛtki/ RET-kee;[1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963), an American poet. He is regarded as one of th...
J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Tale of Tinuviel"
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (/ˈruːl ˈtɒlkiːn/, ROOL TOL-keen;[a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973), an English wri...
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963), an American poet. His work was initially published in England before i...
Rudyard Kipling's "If"
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is dedicated to my son, Coulter, who turns twelve today. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 Janua...
Jane Kenyon's "The Blue Bowl"
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947 – April 22, 1995) was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally r...
T.S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and edi...
Thomas Gray's "Ode to the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes"
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771), an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and fellow at Pembroke Colleg...
Pablo Neruda's "A Dog Has Died"
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Pablo Neruda (/nəˈruːdə/;[1] Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða] ⓘ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto;...
Blaise Cendrars "Menus"
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961),[1] better known as Blaise Cendrars, a Swiss-born novelist and poe...
Roald Dahl's "The Centipede's Song"
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Roald Dahl[a] (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990), a British popular author of children's literatureand short stories, a po...
T.S. Eliot's "The Naming of Cats"
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and edi...
Mary Oliver's "Beside the Waterfall"
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) , an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Pr...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 44"
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861), an English poet of the Victorian era, popular i...
Wendell Berry's "September 2"
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934), an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and fa...
Seamus Heaney's "Scaffolding"
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013), an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nob...
Rita Dove's "Ars Poetica"
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952), an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultan...
Zbigniew Herbert's "From Mythology"
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Zbigniew Herbert (IPA: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈxɛrbɛrt] (listen); 29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998), a Polish poet, essayist, drama w...
Billy Collins' "Introduction to Poetry"
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by William James Collins, aka Billy Collins, (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United...
Edgar Allan Poe's "Sonnet to Science"
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849), an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary cri...
Emily Dickinson's "As Imperceptibly as Grief"
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886), an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since be...
Philip Larkin's "Mother, Summer, I"
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Philip Arthur Larkin CH CBE FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985), an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of...
Thomas Lux's "Cow Chases Boys"
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017), an American poet who held the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in ...
Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013), an Irish poet, playwright and translator. ...
John Ashbery's "Crossroads in the Past"
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by John Lawrence Ashbery[1] (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) , an American poet and art critic.[2] Ashbery is considered the mo...
Matthea Harvey's "In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden"
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Matthea Harvey, the author of five books of poetry—If the Tabloids are True What Are You?, Of Lamb (an illustrated erasure with...
Ted Kooser's "In the Basement of the Goodwill Store"
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Theodore J. Kooser (born 25 April 1939)[1], an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. He served as Poet Laur...
Lord Dunsany's "A Dirge of Victory"
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany FRSL (/dʌnˈseɪni/; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957, usually Lord Dun...
Denise Levertov's "Witness"
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997), a British-born naturalised American poet.[3] She was a recipien...
Robert Morgan's "Bellrope"
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Robert Morgan (born 1944), an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He studied at North Carolina State University as a...
Mary Oliver's "Storage"
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019), an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Pri...
Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Onion"
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Pablo Neruda (/nəˈruːdə/;[1] Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða] (listen))(born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July...
Thomas Merton's "An Elegy for Ernest Hemingway"
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social ...
Donald Hall's "Oxcart Man"
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Donald Andrew Hall Jr.[1] (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018), an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He was th...
Walt Whitman's "Election Day, November, 1884
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Walter Whitman Jr. (/ˈhwɪtmən/; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892), an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considere...
Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887), an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist...
Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Walter Whitman Jr. (/ˈhwɪtmən/; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892), an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considere...
Thomas Lux' "Refrigerator, 1957"
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017), an American poet who held the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poe...
Emily Dickinson's "A Little Dog That Wags Its Tail"
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886), an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since be...
Frank O'Hara's "Cambridge"
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966), an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Mus...
A. E. Stallings' "Like"
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born July 2, 1968), an American poet, translator, and essayist.Stallings has published five books of or...
Muso Soseki "Magnificent Peak"
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Musō Soseki (夢窓 疎石, 1275 – October 20, 1351), a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and ga...
Scott Cairns' "Possible Answers to Prayer"
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Scott Cairns. Cairns is the author of ten collections of poetry, one collection of translations of Christian mystics, one spiritu...
Kathleen Norris' "Little Girls in Church"
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Kathleen Norris (born July 27, 1947), an American poet and essayist. She is the author Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, The Cloist...
Theodore Roethke's "Moss-gathering"
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ˈrɛtki/ RET-kee;[1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963), an American poet. He is regarded as one of the...
Robert Herrick's "To Daffodils"
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674)[1], a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. H...
W. B. Yeats' "Adam's Curse"
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by William Butler Yeats[a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939), an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and politician. One of the foremost...
W. H. Auden's "Their Lonely Betters"
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today poem is by Wystan Hugh Auden (/ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973[1]), a British-American poet. Auden's poe...
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Bed in Summer"
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894), a Scottish novelist, essayist...
2 Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000), an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with ...
Robert Hass' "The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate"
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United Statesfrom 1995 to 1997.[1] He won the 2007 National...
Christian Wiman's "All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs"
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Christian Wiman, an American poet and editor born in 1966 and raised in the small west Texas town of Snyder.[1] He graduated from...
John Masefield's "Sea Fever"
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by John Edward Masefield OM (/ˈmeɪsˌfiːld, ˈmeɪz-/; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967), an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureat...
Jim Daniels' "American Cheese"
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by James Raymond Daniels (born 1956 in Detroit, Michigan), an American poet and writer. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, the wr...
3 Poems for Memorial Day
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today is Memorial Day so in this episode we present three notable poems from among the many memorable poems of the World War I era. Memory eternal to ...
Ursula K. LeGuin's "Leaves"
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (née Kroeber; /ˈkroʊbər lə ˈɡwɪn/ KROH-bər lə GWIN;[1] October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018), a...
John Betjeman's "A Subaltern's Love Song"
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today poem is from Sir John Betjeman CBE (/ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984), an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet La...
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem is by Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906), an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th an...
Jane Kenyon's "Dutch Interiors"
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s poem comes from American poet Jane Kenyon, who would have been seventy-five today had she not died in 1995 at the age of forty-seven. Her wo...
Seamus Heaney's "May"
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What better way to bring back The Daily Poem than with a poem by one of my favorite poets, Seamus Heaney. Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and tra...
The Daily Poem Is Back!
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a too-long hiatus, The Daily Poem is coming back with new episodes every week day, starting Monday, May 22. As a small taste, click play to hear...
Joy Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joy Harjo (/ˈhɑːrdʒoʊ/ HAR-joh; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She is the incumbent United States Po...
Christina Rossetti's "Sonnets Are Full of Love"
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Go...
William Blake's "A Poison Tree"
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now ...
Caroline Mellor's "We Need to Teach the Children the Old Words"
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Mellor contributes regularly to The Green Parent magazine and her work has also been featured in Rebelle Society, Scribe, Elephant Journal, t...
Ted Kooser's "Daddy Longlegs"
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Theodore J. Kooser (born 25 April 1939)[1] is an American poet. Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to...
Seamus Heaney's "Three-Piece Suit"
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the...
Louise Gluck's "Averno"
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Louise Elisabeth Glück (/ɡlɪk/, GLICK;[1][2] born April 22, 1943) is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature,...
Claude McKay's "Easter Flower"
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890[1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in th...
The Dream of the Rood
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's poem is an Easter-themed poem by an anonymous 10th century poet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a publi...
Tyree Daye's "Where She Planted Hydrangeas"
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collectio...
Wendy Cope's "The Orange"
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy Cope OBE (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridg...
Amy Gertsler's "In Perpetual Spring"
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Gerstler (born 1956) is an American poet. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship[1] as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.[2]Bio via Wiki...
Billy Collins' "Today"
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.[1][2] He is a ...
John Koethe's "The Late Wisconsin Spring"
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Koethe (born December 25, 1945) is an award-winning American poet, essayist and professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–...
James Joyce's "Song"
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary critic. He contrib...
Howard Nemerov's "Adam and Eve Later in Life"
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Nemerov (March 1, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, fr...
Margaret Hasse's "Day after Daylight Savings Time"
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Hasse (born 1950, in South Dakota), is a poet and writer who has lived and worked in Minnesota since graduating from Stanford University...
Marianne Moore's "Poetry"
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted f...
A. E. Russell's "Forgiveness"
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (often written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, edito...