In the argument that art does not lead inevitably to virtue, let us present Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751–1816) as Exhibit A. He was a womanizer, a social climber, a backstabber. His closest ...

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” For years, those iconic lines of verse in Robert Frost’s “Stopping by the Woods on a ...

A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

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The problem with contemporary poetry is poets. The poems are lovely – dense, funny, sensuous, interesting. The poets are an unhappy people, riven by grievance, whose primary occupation seems to be the ...

“The Moon that fell from heaven”—a story first inscribed on clay tablets in the 14th century BCE—begins with a celestial accident: the Moon tumbles to earth and encounters the workings of nature. In a ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

On a trip to Paris earlier this year, I visited Père Lachaise. It’s the largest cemetery in the city, within which some of the most respected artistic figures rest. From Oscar Wilde to Chopin, Honoré ...

Even if you're years out of school and not actively taking an English class, it's hard not to note how we use literary and sound devices in music, art, advertising and writing. You've got "Snap, ...

From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time ...