Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

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

I remember just being astonished by the representations of the gods. The omnipresence of the gods in the world of the Iliad, ...

To read Shukla is to read not a version of what is already known, but what is constantly being inscribed in and erased from ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

The sonnet sits in the miscellany alongside "politically charged" works from the 1640s - the decade of the English Civil ... Veronese discovered the poem The added lines "potentially transform ...

The furore was about a poem called V by northern English poet Tony Harrison – a ... It consists of 112 four-line stanzas, or quatrains, with an ABAB rhyming scheme, the same form as Thomas ...

Though speech writing is an internationally accepted art with even the earlier US presidents employing professionals, in ...

While conducting research at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, English professor Leah ... “he may not have read past the opening lines” of the poem, Veronese wrote in the study.

At Vox’s Future Perfect, the section I run, we like to refer to the drastic drop in child mortality as the most important ...