Over the course of nearly two centuries, the American jeweller has become synonymous with romance and engagements. Read more ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

From the mythology of Gráinne and Diarmuid to the poetry of Yeats and the songs of Van the Man, Ireland has long celebrated ...

Barkley has consistently given shout-outs to his former teachers. And they have all echoed that the Eagles running back's ...

She was one of the most famous writers in Denmark ... “In childhood’s long darkened night / burn little, flickering lanterns”: so one early poem in this collection begins.

Paris' abduction (or seduction) of Helen sparks the decade-long ... Homer's famous description of the "wine-dark sea" becomes the "booze-dark sea." These kinds of allusions reinforce the epic-poem ...

From passionate declarations to quiet devotion, these letters from history's greatest lovers offer a glimpse into their deep ...

Aunt Marj is now 110 years old and thriving - and she puts her longevity down to a few "good rules" she has always abided by.

We know the cast of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, but not their roles. These are our best guesses at who will play who in ...