Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

The Princess of Wales hasn't appeared publicly in 11 days but broke her silence with an Instagram post she personally signed, ...

The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for ...

It is only by listening to these individual voices that we can really begin to understand what the many millions of Holocaust ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

"Pipes of Peace" was a song that was a big hit in Great Britain for Paul McCartney upon its release in 1983. Once he received ...

The opera “Primero Sueño” translates Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s poem about the soul’s journey into a musical promenade ...

Lord Byron’s influence on musicians was immense – with Rossini, Verdi, Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Schoenberg among the ...

I went to my rest a sober man, content with the stable progression of elements I found to be more reliable than any prayer.