Sometimes we assume the people and things around us are neutral or hostile to our existence. What if the opposite could be true?
Tag: Poetry and Poets
Oscar Wilde Gets His Library Card Back, 125 Years After His Death
The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of gross indecency. On Thursday, the British Library will hand over a symbolic new card to his grandson.
Diplomatic Coup or Abject Groveling? U.K. Debates Trump’s Royal Welcome
Some British commentators praised the state visit as a necessary piece of realpolitik. Others criticized it as an embarrassing display for a destructive president.
Following the Sounds of Arabic to Rediscover Paris
A language student’s guide to the French capital highlights the culinary, literary and musical influences that quietly shape everyday life.
A 900-Year-Old Typo May Unravel a Chaucer Mystery
The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe’s error deepened the confusion around it.
James Lloydovich Patterson, 91, Dies; Soviet Poet and Symbol of Racial Unity
Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and international solidarity.
Memory Palace
Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom inside of you.
At 13, Charlotte Brontë Already Knew How Good a Writer She Would Be
An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.
Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered
An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different.
Maria Teresa Horta, the Last of Portugal’s ‘Three Marias,’ Dies at 87
The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their country’s dictatorship.