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

Always have a person in your life with whom you can share all your secrets' For me, you were that person, dadi ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Scotland's national bard was renowned for his numerous love affairs, fathering at least 12 children with four women. However, many of his most famous poems were inspired by these relationships and ...

The women of Sparta ... In this depiction, Homer's famous description of the "wine-dark sea" becomes the "booze-dark sea." These kinds of allusions reinforce the epic-poem-size subtext surrounding ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead. Right? Or is its history darker?

Many legends claim to explain the origins of Valentine’s Day, but as is the case with legends, they leave many questions ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

Lauren Gunderson’s play “The Half-Life of Marie Curie” is based on the true friendship of European scientists Marie Curie and ...

After splitting from her husband of 11 years, Liev Schreiber (with whom she shares kids, Sasha and Kai), Watts then had to acclimate to dating as a menopausal woman ... from a poem, but rather ...