Across centuries and continents, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror of human experience: a time when beauty and decay, fullness and farewell, coexist. From Shakespeare’s trembling sonnets to ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and decline, beauty and loss. In earlier traditions, from Shakespeare to Keats, ...

May Sarton was a novelist and an avid keeper of journals, but she considered herself a poet above all else. Novels and journals, she said in 1983, are concerned with growth over time, but “the poem is ...

Keats’s famous ode speaks across time and space to a 21st-century Sri Lankan, whose turbulent history catches on its mellow mood Autumn (after John Keats) The fallen yellow leaves now oftener flare ...

The first intimations of a change in the seasons prompt a lyrical reflection on what is being named Song at the Beginning of Autumn Now watch this Autumn that arrives In smells. All looks like Summer ...

On my recent trip to Kyoto to admire the autumn season of the ancient capital, I visited Enkoji temple, a site famously adorned with a spectacular tapestry of fall foliage in the northern part of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Louise Glück’s new collection, her first since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020, has at ...