Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

Scottish journalist and author Andrew O’Hagan talks about why the social novel still matters- and why good books are as essential as protein.

My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

But often it’s through unexpected juxtapositions that Monteiro evokes life’s mysteries. So, for instance, the poem “Solomon ...

The poem goes on to refer to ideas and thoughts transmuted into structures, and contrasts architecture as a celebration of life, art and existence with more ambivalent complexities ...

A walk in the many wooded areas around the Lowcountry and across South Carolina can be a renewing experience for elders and a new perspective on life, death.

Jairam correctly identifies the last canto of the poem entitled BOOK THE EIGHTH ‘as the most important section of the poem’ for it contains a reflection of Edwin Arnold’s rational understanding of ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, writes David L. Harrison.

Be it Elizabeth Bennet’s acceptance of love, or Shakespeare’s comparison of his love, here we mention 11 lines from books and poems that make people fall in love.

In his book about Edwin Arnold’s poem Jairam Ramesh offers a brief description of the life and times of the poet, and narrates the story of how the poem came to be composed and how it was received at ...