From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of Troy, found in the collection of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Political theory and strategy that works for American humans The novel is dead. But the epic poem -- book-length fiction, and its ...

This article examines Ismene's nightmare in book 8 of Statius's Thebaid by contextualizing it within the epic's narrative, comparing it with the dream narrations of other female characters in epic ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

The editor of a new collection of John Berryman’s Dream Songs describes the enduring power of Berryman’s work and its ...

Half a century ago Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel recorded a song based upon the poem “Richard Cory.” If Simon had not written the song, maybe no one under the age of seventy would be aware of the ...

The epic poetry and choruses of ancient Greece come together with a distinctly new-world aesthetic and electronic media in the University of Missouri’s world premiere of “The Orphan Sea,” a piece ...

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