Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars, including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge ...

Teaching literature is an exercise in freedom. Now ideological demands from the right are putting it in danger.

1986: Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000m in world record 30:13.74. 1991: Labour MP Terry Fields is sentenced to 60 ...

The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled ...

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th ...

The Pittsburgh location of the Karpeles Manuscript Library can be found in the former Holy Innocents Church in Sheraden.

The writer Geoff Dyer unravels a tale in which the intricacies of model airplanes and the comic horrors of school lunch ...

A Chicago-based coin and antiquities dealer claims it has uncovered a previously unknown poem by American poet James Whitcomb Riley. Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. announced Tuesday that it had discovered the ...