Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

Mark Wiltshire, a University of York English Literature alumnus, is a Rare Books and Manusceripts Specialist at Christie's, London. As a medieval historian and lover of all things rare manuscripts (an ...

Here is a complete list of nominations for Sunday’s 67th annual Grammy Awards: Grammys 2025 Album of the Year “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé “New Blue Sun,” André 3000 “Short n’ Sweet,” Sabrina Carpenter ...

Studying English literature at the University of Oxford as an Irish undergraduate was an education in being an outsider. I felt alienated from the very start.

A barbecue, a protest … or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an essential Australia Day read. Here are the works they consider crucial to understanding our culture and ...

Julio Florencio Cortázar, whose 110th anniversary of birth and 40th of death fall at this time, was born in Ixelles, a small village south of Brussels, on August 26, 1914. The son of a diplomat, he ...

O’Brien had earlier run away with her older lover, Ernest Gebler, which led to a farcical and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to bring her home from her hiding place on the Isle ...

Bob Dylan has a number of links to Dylan Thomas, said author Jeff Towns Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's decision to take his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is "hugely important for ...

Clare Crockett — who lost her life in a 2016 earthquake at the age of 33 — dropped her dreams of being an actress to become a nun in her late teens, giving up the chance to present a show on ...

Only four presidents, all of them Democrats, have invited a total of six poets to read at their inaugurations — John F Kennedy, Bill Clinton (twice), Barack Obama (twice) and Joe Biden.

The great English poet, John Milton, explained why this is inevitable 350 years ago in Paradise Lost, writing that the fierce hatred inspired by war makes hope of compromise unrealistic ...