Several people have written Neighbors about how poetry was emphasized ... My brother, Amer, two years older than I was, had to memorize that very portion of 'Canterbury Tales' (that was carried ...

Such minutiae aside, that day 250 years ago, April 19, 1775, still deserves to be celebrated in prose and poetry, and is every bit as extraordinary as you might have learned when you were a child ...

writing more than 1,000 years ago!) continuously centers female perspectives in a work that ostensibly chronicles the escapades of a male hero. From its opening line, “The Tale of Genji ...

Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Tale of Sinuhe, one of the most celebrated works of ancient Egyptian literature. Written around four thousand years ago, the poem narrates the ...

She knows how to come to work every day ... Since its debut eight years ago, “The Handmaid’s Tale” was nominated for a whopping 76 Academy Awards and walked away with 15 wins.

Written 1,000 years ago, the epic story of 11th-Century Japan, The Tale of Genji ... It’s a “monumental work of literature,” says Melissa McCormick, a professor of Japanese art and culture ...

Virgil wrote his classic poem, “The Aeneid,” more than 2,000 years ago. Thanks to the Vatican ... which tells the tale of the ancient hero Aeneas as he ventures from Troy to Italy.

That’s exactly what happened to employees in Italy working on a methane pipeline ... The Avellino eruption, which occurred 3,780 years ago, began with an intense pumice fallout followed by ...

It becomes clear too that the tales themselves are largely the result of other journeys. In so structuring the work, Chaucer inscribes ... Conceived a year ago by the Gatwick Detainees Welfare ...

The authors do not work for ... In the same year, a 200-foot-high mural was unveiled at the historic Watts train station in LA bearing Rodríguez’s poem Watts Bleeds. The poem was published ...

It is the Epic of Gilgamesh, engraved on ancient Babylonian tablets 4,000 years ago, making it the oldest surviving work ... poem that still sums up war - Why The Handmaid’s Tale is so relevant ...

Another good example of this kind of work is the song “Not A Blade of Grass” by Dave Martins, which may also be compared with McAndrew’s poem ... of 50 years ago. There is a mixture of ...