Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

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, ...

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

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

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...

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.

When James Joyce's short story collection Dubliners was published on June 15th 1914 it was the end of a long and tortuous struggle for the writer who had finished the last story in the collection, ...

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 ...

“It’s about what it means to be a young person in a generation that is going to, and is currently changing the world ... became the first winner of the National Youth Poet Laureate award.

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

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.