Walter Whitman Jr. was an influential American poet, essayist, and journalist, best known for his groundbreaking work Leaves ...

Wilfred Owen wrote poems about the horrors of war from his personal experience whilst serving in the British Army in France during World War One. He demonstrated his love of writing from an early age, ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous observation, made in his 1846 poem Ode, Inscribed to William H. Channing, that “things are in the saddle, and ride mankind,” applies with some force to the current ...

A chorus of schoolboys who sang on a world-famous rendition of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem ... It interweaves the traditional Latin text of the Requiem Mass with the anti-war poetry of soldier ...

Miscommunication has often led to disaster. Take the famous Charge of the Light Brigade, for example. In 1854 during the Crimean War, a brigade of British horsemen was ordered to attack Russian ...

But responding to the news, former minister for "common sense" Esther McVey posted a famous Martin Niemöller poem about inaction from within Germany against the Nazis during the Second World War ...

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? It’s unsurprising that Darren Freebury-Jones, a lecturer at the Shakespeare Birthplace ...

This week, experience the electrifying power of Carmina Burana, as The Phoenix Symphony returns for its new season of concerts.

Le Guin's family plans to donate the home, where the author lived and wrote beginning in the 1960s, to the nonprofit Literary Arts for a residency program.

Here’s a fact that would have sounded wildly unlikely a decade ago: the most popular and influential poet writing in English ...

Who has the highest IQ? Intelligence is the type of thing that seems like it would be difficult to measure, and the truth is ...

Library of Virginia Recognizes 2024 Recipients and Patron of Letters Degree Recipients Reginald Dwayne Betts and Adriana Trigiani </p ...