For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

WHO’D have thought? A 300-year-old opera suddenly becomes avant-garde thanks to some impressive acrobatics – and a bit of ...

Bread is an amazing base or accompaniment for so many foods. Even stale bread can be used in a surprising number of dishes. You can also use bread as your dinnerware. Bread bowls are hollowed out ...

The Communist Manifesto put an end to its political existence. Baudelaire’s poetry drew its force from the rebellious pathos of this group. He took the part of the asocial. He achieved his only sexual ...

A mock-heroic 1798 poem Eneida is magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It's a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotlyarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Ukrainian ...

As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

At the 9/11 memorial in New York, a line from Virgil’s Aeneid, wrought in iron from the debris of the collapsed towers, spanning 60 feet: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” Moving, ...