David Annwn, is great-nephew of the famous Welsh bard, Ap Hefin (‘I Bob un sydd ffyddlon’), and winner of the Cardiff ...

Hong Kong today has more skyscrapers than any other city on earth — astonishing, really, when you consider how little flat land there is to put them all on. For most of its existence, Hong Kong was a ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.

Famous faces such as Queen Elizabeth II and Oprah Winfrey have shared pearls of wisdom over the years, here are some of our ...

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

Vancouver's head of public art, Eric Fredericksen, says that although artist Brady Cranfield's Weekend Chime is conceptually ...

Annie Boutelle, a lecturer in English, knew what she longed to see at Smith—a poetry center. With colleagues’ encouragement and assistance from senior Meredith Martin, Boutelle fleshed out the dream: ...

The Egyptian Building in Chino Hills is a surprising strip mall restaurant made to look like the Abu Simbel temples in Egypt ...

Following the death of his great friend Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833, the poet Alfred Tennyson began writing In Memoriam AHH, ...

Bard bashing has become something of a national sport, says Robert McCrum, and the latest attempt to rewrite the legacy of ...

March is Women’s History Month, but celebrating the women, well-known or not, who make our present existence more meaningful with the inspiration of their lives, should be a year-round ritual.

Alongside her razor-sharp critiques on men and intellectual bravado, Sor Juana penned intimate love letters that read like ...