Whether carved in stone or wood, printed onto a page, beat out by a mimetic or rhythmic body, or humming in the mind, poems are meant to engrave and adhere. Ancient Greek poetry exhibits a ...
Setting the work of authors such as Callimachus, Catullus and Archimedes in dialogue with the less well-known isopsephic epigrams of Leonides of Alexandria and the anonymous arithmetical poems ...
The "Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems" music concert is held at the National Center for the Performing Arts, Nov 2, 2024. [Photo by Lu Xu/Chinaculture.org] ...
On December 10, 1963, Greek diplomat and poet Giorgos Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by King Gustav of Sweden. Seferis was the first Greek to receive the esteemed award.
Wearing a kind of traditional Chinese robe emerging in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), renowned lyricist Vincent Fang Wenshan, who has been best known for his works often treated as poetry of artistic ...
Poetry enjoys immense popularity in Iran ... The tradition of Hafez bibliomancy - using his ancient wisdoms for divination and guidance - is known as Fal-e Hafez. 'Ambiguous and multifaceted ...