The 19th-century English poet was a "prolific reviser" who tested out many variations of his work before publication. A new ...

Highlights include several concerts inspired by precious natural resources, and an Oregon symphony performance based on Celilo Falls.

Paula Findlen was strolling under the Renaissance arcades of Via Zamboni in Bologna, Italy. A graduate student in history of ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

First of all, it wasn't even initially part of the Statue of Liberty. The statue was built in the 1870s and 1880s. The poem ...

Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, ...

But should a major decline occur, he continued, "heed these lines" from Rudyard Kipling's classic poem "If," circa 1895. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...