I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s ...

Myra Sklarew, a poet and teacher who found inspiration for her graceful, meditative verses in the natural world, her Jewish heritage and her early years working with rhesus monkeys at a research lab, ...

Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...

My assumption that humanist academics were all on the left was foolish, of course. But so was my defeatist certainty that ...

Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s biography of Robert Graves covers the same period ... Nor can anyone who wasn’t unlucky enough to be there know what trench warfare in the First World War was really like.

Are you an avid reader? Here is the assemblage of Drew Barrymore’s 10 best reads! The versatile actress is a bibliophile with a wide range of literary interests.

The Alex Awards were first ... and in the world. The Edwards award celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2013. The story of the wanderings of Ulysses, as he returns to his kingdom of Ithaca after the ...

The archive of a "talented" Edinburgh war poet who died in 1917 before seeing ... was a schoolboy at George Watson's College before serving in the Royal Highlanders, Black Watch during the First World ...

Massachusetts was one of only three states without a poet laureate, according to the Library of Congress, joined by New ...

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...

James Alexander Mann, known as Hamish, was a schoolboy at George Watson’s College and served in the Royal ... is now part of the canon of First World War poets he so admired.

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on ...