The poem is about a woman looking back on her life when she is old. The speaker asks her to remember how many people loved her beauty, but only one person truly loved her soul. It’s a gentle but sad ...

Every culture and society on Earth, both past and present, has their own ideas of what makes a person honorable or worthy. This is particularly true when it comes to warriors and their actions both on ...

The Greek poet Constantine P Cavafy, or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, was a little-known, aloof figure during his own time (1863-1933), but in the Nick Drake fashion, he managed to win the respect of ...

“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 ...

Tolkien called the lines “remote and strange and beautiful,” saying they made something come alive within him. They inspired one of his early poems, published in 1914, when he was only 22 years old.

The show features 20 meticulously crafted artistic prints by the two contemporary visual artists, in response to poems by three English-language poets. “It’s interesting the kind of people who live in ...

Language is like a living organism, it changes, grow, and evolves over time. And yet, a few words from times long past have been able to continue being a part of our everyday language, testifying that ...

'Bruises and Butterflies', a collection of 68 poems by a 14-year-old budding writer, Tamaara Nambiar, and published by FOLIO, Thiruvananthapuram, is a luminous journey through the landscapes of pain, ...

Perhaps the oldest surviving long poem in Old English, Beowulf is commonly seen as one of the most important works of Old English Literature. While the date of the poem’s composition is still debated, ...

At two o’clock in the morning on 23 October 1731, ‘a great smoak’ began to pour from the rafters of Ashburnham House in Westminster. The library was on fire, which meant that English history was on ...