There's One Surviving Copy of This Tale of King Arthur's Knights. A Researcher Just Unlocked Its Secrets.
Bahr undertook a complete re-examination of the tome, complete with spectroscopic analysis and mathematical investigation, to ...
The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...
Decoding a medieval mystery manuscript
MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...
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The Concrete Poetics of Mary Ellen Solt
Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...
‘Grass lives next to grass’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on Jnanpith winner Vinod Kumar Shukla’s poetry
To read Shukla is to read not a version of what is already known, but what is constantly being inscribed in and erased from ...
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If you think Homer's poetry is stodgy and boring, you’ve never heard Emily Wilson's version
I remember just being astonished by the representations of the gods. The omnipresence of the gods in the world of the Iliad, ...
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Timeless Collections For World Poetry Day
Poetry, like most art, is subjective, and people’s tastes run as wide as the collections on offer. Whether young or old, well ...
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A Rare Love Poem Written By Shakespeare Was Found Tucked Away In A Manuscript
A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.
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Why Warren Buffett turns to a 19th-century poem when markets slide
The Berkshire Hathaway chairman often turns to Rudyard Kipling’s 1895 poem "If"— as a guide during market downturns, urging investors to remain calm and focused on the long term rather than reacting ...
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The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today
(Win McNamee/Getty Images) The new regime in Washington now has a taste for something that's very old: a global empire ... The Aeneid into English, adds the epic poem shows another side that ...
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The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today
The new regime in Washington now has a taste for something that's very old: a global empire ... who has translated The Aeneid into English, adds the epic poem shows another side that focuses ...
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International Poetry Slam Cyprus is back
This is the event for the island’s English-speaking community. As in all poetry slam competitions, open mics and shows, participants take the stage to present original walk, in any language ...