Poetry isn't a medium typically associated with towering beasts. Lyric poems tend to be short, tender and concerned with ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

A 16th-Century epic poem based on the life of popular Hindu god Ram is at the centre of a huge political row in India. Ramcharitmanas is counted by many scholars to be among the world's greatest ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother ... new translation of a modern epic—first published, in ...

How a stay in Warsaw and a father’s funeral became the source of a poem the famous Russian poet wrote for his entire life, in ...

Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual ...

an event that gets a mention in the famous epic poem Beowulf. â â â â â â â The earlier saga tells the story of King Rerir of Hunaland, which focuses on how he and his ...

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Catalonia is a singular nation situated in the northeast of Spain. Its vibrant history includes some of the world’s most famous epic and lyric poetry and some of its most sophisticated and ancient ...

The famous poem has been a guide for readers from Virginia Woolf to inmates in New Jersey, as Orlando Reade reveals in What ...