Discover the story behind John William Waterhouse’s iconic paintings inspired by Tennyson’s 'The Lady of Shalott.' ...

See how one homesick scholar put together a massive compendium of verse by former emperors, modern-day activists, soldiers, sages and Nobel winners.

“What a joy this was,” Kate Wakeling said of judging the Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2025. The annual prize, run by The Moth, ...

Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of ...

For the first time in their 32 years of marriage, college professors Richard De Prospo and Erin Murphy are celebrating the ...

Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics ...

Elizabeth Petrino, professor of English at Fairfield University who received her doctorate at UB, wrote one of the letters ...

He said that Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village had influenced him more than any other poem in English. “I still think it is one of the best English poems and it gave me a longing for ...

Democratic Statesman correspondent 'Pidge' makes a report on the Texas States Asylum for the newspaper in 1874.

The state senator from Chesterfield is now the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor and the first Muslim woman in the U.S. to be nominated to a statewide ticket, according to ...

I wasn’t yet three. She knew that she was jeopardizing her marriage. She knew that she was crossing a line my dad considered ...

The new lectionary has now been in force since the beginning of Advent last year. I say “in force” rather than a more neutral expression, because there was no ...