In a world flooded with cheap facsimiles of human art, will we still be able to rely on our own faculties for creation, or will they atrophy?

By itself, a poem can’t fix injustice, prevent violence, or erase mistakes we’ve made. But it can “hold you and scold you at the same time,” Daughtry writes; it can “make you float . . . introduce you ...

Ideas The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today ... At a time when empires are making a comeback, Virgil's Aeneid is more relevant than ever ...

The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today IDEAS Tom Jokinen | Posted: March 10, 2025 9:11 PM | Last Updated: March 11 At a time when empires are making a ...

A definitive edition of Seamus Heaney's poetry, edited by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O'Donoghue, and Matthew Hollis, will be published by Faber on October 9th.

Allen Ginsburg saw poetry as an act of exposure, “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world ...

Without realizing it, Musk had reinvented the plot of Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, whose protagonist sails from war-ravaged Troy to a land where his descendants would later found Rome.

The Aeneid is a famous poem by the ancient Roman poet Virgil, who is often credited as the father of Latin poetry. He lived during the Augustan period, roughly 250 years before Gladiator 2 takes ...

Constructed between 29 and 19 B.C. and commissioned (according to some) by the first Roman Emperor Augustus, The Aeneid was designed as a kind of national epic, inspired by the grand works of the ...

hen I was reading Virgil’s Aeneid for the first time, in translation, for a Great Books course at the University of Michigan, I heard in lectures what I believe are the usual criticisms. The epic ...