Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. Although he died of tuberculosis on June 5, 1900, at the age of 28, Crane produced a vast number of ...

Philosophy, the journal of The Royal Institute of Philosophy is published by Cambridge University Press quarterly in January, April, July and October. The editorial policy of the journal pursues the ...

WHETHER we are to regard history as an analysis of tendencies or as a biography of individuals is ultimately a question, not of absolute truth and falsehood, but of relative temperament. If the ...

Daniel Tobin seeks to strike the balance between making his poems accessible and challenging. Tobin, the author of five poetry collections and the interim dean of the School of the Arts at Emerson ...

BANGALORE: The Selected Stotras of Adi Shankara by S Ramaswamy is a lucid commentary on the hymns of the great Advaita philosopher, Sri Adi Shankaracharya who had a profound influence on Hinduism ...

List of Contributors -- Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations -- Editor's Introduction: Nasir-i Khusraw and Philosophical Poetry / Alice C. Hunsberger -- I. Speech and Intellect -- 1. The Position ...

Wordsworth had begun work on the great philosophical poem, but he was not finding it easy (indeed, it would continue to defeat him for the rest of his long and well-disciplined life). He also withdrew ...

Romanticism was a wave of literary expression that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Characterized by its emphasis on emotional and spiritual values as well as its deep ...