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

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

Poet introduces her first children’s book, “Fumious Rex: The Outcast Cat,” with her sons Bly and Rowan Pope, professional ...

As I move through my English Literature and Creative Writing degree, I start to hear allusions everywhere, and especially in ...

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

Historians are skeptical that this has a basis in fact, but it was useful propaganda for Augustus Caesar, who established himself as Rome’s first emperor while Virgil was writing his poem. By ...

Although the shores are equipped with several beach clubs, a wild swim is the way to go. Lake Como’s best public beaches ...

A new book illustrates that far from being pastoral fantasies wasting land, money and energy, they are a valuable cultural export, part of the country’s enduring soft power ...

Part IV: Mark Twain and Dan DeQuille — Dan’s Coup D’état: A brand from the campfire was seized and Dan yelled “hold on” and ...

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I’m sure the artist Mike Mignola has, at some point, drawn a straight line, but it wasn’t recently. In “Bowling With Corpses ...

In his masterpiece The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri describes his descent into the underworld where he visits the three realms of the dead— the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. With the Latin poet ...