In Poems to Learn by Heart, Kennedy stresses the importance of memorizing poetry and presents a collection of poems that she believes everyone should internalize. "I think there's something in it ...

Hence the title: "Poems to Learn By Heart." "It was a combination of remembering my own childhood and thinking about gifts I'd been given," she said in an interview last week at her husband's ...

During Caroline Kennedy’s childhood, poetry was a family affair. Her father, President John F. Kennedy, had admired Robert Frost enough to give him a prominent place at his inauguration, and her ...

Kennedy and Muth return with a stellar second poetry compilation, following 2005’s A Family of Poems. Meant to be memorized, the more than 100 poems are divided into nine thematic sections ...

The Formula One driver Jochen Mass pursued a career of extreme jeopardy. But the detail that caught my eye in his Telegraph ...

While everything else about school faded away, segments of poems I once drank in as nectar in English class still float into ...

Michael Wood observed that the poet “was the product of a memorizing culture in which huge chunks of literature were learned by heart.” Such “learning by rote,” Wood wrote, “offers many rewards, not ...

The royal said: “If you have to learn something by heart you look at it properly and ... “You can have a little store where you have got all these poems in you for the rest of your life ...

In “Poems to Learn by Heart,” her new anthology of 100 poems for children of all ages, with illustrations by Jon J Muth (with whom she collaborated on an earlier volume, the 2005 best-seller ...

“L’infinito” is something like Italy’s national poem. Everyone knows it, or a great many know it. Know it by heart.

Are there poems you would like to memorize ... Maybe I should start learning the Psalms by heart so that nobody can take them away from me. Kevin then says, I’d like to memorize the Psalms.