Upheaval is our ordinary, change our constant. But never, in the past decade, the change we need. I’ve always found that that feeling of change and contradictorily stillness, is perfectly captured in ...

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The Rt Revd Lord Harries of Pentregarth is a former Bishop of Oxford. This is an edited extract from his book Wounded I Sing: From Advent to Christmas with George Herbert, published by SPCK Publishing ...

In order to reframe the questions that arise from his encounter with the Gitanjali, Yeats does subtly undermine the dichotomy ...

(Perloff wrote that when her “poet friends … really want to put me down, they say that I’m not so different from Helen Vendler!”) Vendler’s scholarly books explored canonical poets such as Wallace ...

Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote WH Auden in his 1939 poem In Memory of WB Yeats. The Tasmanian-born author Richard ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Mustafa Kasubhai to be a federal judge, putting an end to Republicans’ baseless accusations that he is a Marxist because of a cheesy love poem he wrote ...

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Irish author William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature on November 14, 1923. We take a look at Yeats' life. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats, who ...