Every now and then the internet trips over something so old it circles back to feeling brand new, and people stop scrolling.

Robert Fergusson (1750-1774) was a Scottish poet who towards the end of his life suffered from mental health problems and died in Edinburgh bedlam. Although his life was short his poems were published ...

The poet John Keats died, horribly, two hundred years ago this month, his lungs so ravaged by tuberculosis that the doctors in Rome who carried out the autopsy couldn't understand how he had breathed ...

This is an epitaph by Robert Burns. It is read here by Gerda Stevenson. This is a mock epitaph for William Muir (1745-1793), a miller in Tarbolton who proved to be a good friend to the Burnes family.