Ramses II Becomes Pharaoh (1279 BC) | Ozymandias, Empires and Transient Power - Poetry Changes Lives

Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity Prayer | Unfailing Source of Wisdom, Peace & Calm - Poetry Changes Lives

Christopher Marlowe's Short Life (1564–1593) | Poet, Playwright and Mystery - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1874: G.K. Chesterton Born | Lepanto, The Donkey and Lay-Theology - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1140: Xin Qiji Born The Voice of Chinese Poetry - War and Wisdom - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1703: St Petersburg Founded | Peter the Great & Cavafy’s The City - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1859: A.E. Housman Was Born | A Shropshire Lad & On Wenlock Edge - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1803: Ralph Waldo Emerson Was Born | Truth, Mysticism and Brahma - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1950: Field Marshal Wavell Died | War, Poetry and Self-Honesty - Poetry Changes Lives

Sea Dogs - I Started Early - Took My Dog - Emily Dickinson Visiting the Sea - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1936: M Scott Peck Was Born | The Road Less Travelled & Dr Faustus- Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1859:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Was Born | Stories of Mystery & Poems - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1688: Alexander Pope was Born | Satire, Poetry and Wisdom - Poetry Changes Lives

How It Is Done - A Poetry Changes Lives Daily Reading By Chris, As It Happens

On This Day 1925: Malcolm X Was Born | Justice, Violence and Inner Struggles - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1872: Bertrand Russell Was Born | Philosophy, Peace & Brotherhood - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1510: Sandro Botticelli Died | Beauty, Art and Mystic Poet Kabir - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day in 1763: Dr Samuel Johnson First Meets James Boswell - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1659: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Poetry, Travel & Women’s Voices - Poetry Changes Lives

Can We Know How The Greeks And Romans Spoke? - There are Many Clues Available - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1925 Virginia Woolf Publishes Mrs Dalloway - Did She Copy Ulysses? Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1907: Daphne du Maurier Was Born | Jamaica Inn & Emily Brontë - Poetry Changes Lives

Where It All Started - Chris's Commonplace Book - Treasured for Seven Decades - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1820: Florence Nightingale Was Born | The Lady with the Lamp - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day in 1904 Salvador Dali Born - Surrealism - Art, Lifestyle, Poetry - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1915: Monica Dickens Was Born | One Pair of Hands and Samaritans - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1265: Dante Alighieri Born | Divine Comedy, Exile Courtly Love - Poetry Changes Lives

13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD - The Challenging Poetry of Wallace Stevens - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1858: John Meade Falkner Born | Poet, Novelist and Arms Dealer - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1812: Robert Browning was Born | The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1861: Rabindranath Tagore Born | Poetry, Beauty and Politics - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1818: Karl Marx Born | Ideas That Changed the World - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1930: Gandhi Imprisoned | Nonviolence, Freedom and Tagore's Poem - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1469: Niccolo Machiavelli Born |The Reality of Power and WB Yeats - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1519: Leonardo da Vinci Died | Art, Beauty & Emotion - John Keats - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1923: Joseph Heller Born | Catch-22, Angels and Inner Demons - Poetry Changes Lives

Hitler’s Final Days (1945) | Power, Reckoning and Macbeth’s “Tomorrow” Speech - Poetry Changes Lives

The Villanelle and The Ballade - Looking at Powerful Forms of Written Verse - Poetry Changes Lives

Joan of Arc (1412) | The Maid of Orléans, Courage & Shakespeare’s Description - Poetry Changes Lives

Harper Lee Born (1926) | To Kill a Mockingbird, Racism & A Poem by Tagore - Poetry Changes Lives

Edward Gibbon (1737) The Tell-tale Signs of Empire in Decline - Relevant Now - Poetry Changes Lives

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On This Day 1873: Walter de la Mare Born, 'The Listeners' & Rossetti’s 'Echo' - Poetry Changes Lives

The Poem That Saved My Life, Now Set to Music in Collaboration with Singer Songwriter Paul Lisney

On This Day 1815: Anthony Trollope Born, Barsetshire and Real-Life England - Poetry Changes Lives

Miguel de Cervantes (1564) | Don Quixote, Birth of the Novel, Battle of Lepanto Poetry Changes Lives

Vladimir Nabokov (1899) | Exile, the Beauty of Language, Butterflies & Lolita - Poetry Changes Lives

Queen Elizabeth II (1926) | A Life of Service and Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXX - Poetry Changes Lives

Bram Stoker (1912) | Dracula, Darkness, Gothic Horror and The Scottish Play - Poetry Changes Lives

Tiananmen Square 1989 | Protest, Freedom and 'The Time Before Death' by Kabir - Poetry Changes Lives

Albert Einstein (1955) | Relativity Theory, Spirituality & A Poem by Shelley - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1397: Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales | Medieval Poetry - Poetry Changes Lives

-The First American Play (1787) | The birth of Broadway - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1912: Titanic Sinks | Tragedy, Thomas Hardy and Human Fragility - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1939: The Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, Poverty & Blake’s Holy Thursday

A REGGAE TAKE ON WILLIAM WORDSWORTH - POETRY CHANGES LIVES BRINGS NEW LOOK TO A CLASSIC POEM

Poems for Hard Times - Poems that Changed Our Lives or Even Saved Our Lives or, Just Gave Us Comfort

Samuel Beckett (1906) | Waiting for Godot, Minimalism & Sophocles Oedipus Rex - Poetry Changes Lives

Yuri Gagarin (1961) | First Human in Space & A Poem About the Stars - Poetry Changes Lives

Kurt Vonnegut (2007) | Humour, Satire, Anti-War Reflection and Science Fiction- Poetry Changes Lives