This week’s poem, Mary Tracy’s “Legacy,” considers our afterlives in the long span of deep time and larger natural cycles. I ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Pronounced “Old Lang Zyne,” experts say it started as a poem, and has since become a song that is now a staple in New Year’s ...

William Wordsworth, a key figure of the Romantic movement, believed nature profoundly shaped human character and imagination.

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Under the gathering sky of the longest night of the year, about 75 people gathered beneath the archway of the Santa Barbara ...

Sick of being known as ‘the devil-worshipping band’, the heavy metal legends wrote a sweeping track about a Romantic poem.

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This is a common trope, but Nolan can finally move past it in one of the oldest stories put to paper. In adapting The Odyssey ...

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”Nothing beside remains.The lone and level sands stretch far away.— Percy Bysshe ...

DICKINSON — As the year comes to a close, you may find yourself searching for new reading material. Here is a short list of a ...

Before Christopher Nolan brings his interpretation of Homer's epic poem to the big screen, Yahoo brings you the definitive ...