When was it that Russia invaded Crimea and you said 2014, you would be right. Yet this is not the first Russian invasion into ...

Apparently, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, did not. Maybe he wanted the line to go faster — more like “Ring-out-wild-bells.” Not sure. Anyway, this poem has ... damn near the most beautiful thing ...

Marianne Faithfull, the London-born singer with an inimitable voice, has passed away at the age of 78. She was known for many ...

“Nothing Will Die” is the title of a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, which is worth reading ... It loomed into the foreground of his work — most strikingly in his collaboration with ...

Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release his debut ...

It’s not easy to read a 19th Century poem and just make every ... on which the singer recited poetry by Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Alfred Tennyson. In 2021, she spoke about how a near-fatal ...

One of Shackleton’s most cherished belongings was a Bible given to him by Queen Alexandra, the wife of Edward VII, which she had inscribed, “May the Lord ... from Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses ...

rode the 600..." from the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Heath corrects him, saying "700. And 14 to be exact." Most historical accounts hold the number at 670 members of the Light Brigade, for which ...

Having temporarily filled the role following Lord Hopetoun’s sudden resignation ... nature matching the spirit of the times. 1 Tennyson was born at Twickenham, London, eldest son of the famous poet ...

The simple, yet powerful image in Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon’s pensive poem Mambazham (1936) of a mother offering a mango to her son, where he had been buried, months after she had reprimanded ...