Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and ...

"On the shore of death ... her father put his pain into words, which he inscribed with a ballpoint pen on a simple piece of white paper. He then asked that this poem and the story of his daughter ...

She was widely known for “her discretion and gentle nature”. “This was a simple quiet and normal family life of a woman, a mother and her family, that was destroyed,” she says. Siobhan is now talking ...

Homer and Odysseus live in a world where there is no one morality common to all people. Odysseus is never condemned for being ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

Ahead of the resumption of the inquiry today, Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden was one of those killed in the bombing, ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Art is for making games’, he writes, ‘that’s the message for today’. But even among his admirers it feels as if there’s a lingering misconception about Raworth: that because his work is funny, ...

Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Trappist monk and priest is recognized as one of the major spiritual fathers of our times ... Thomas Merton expressed this vision in his poetry, novels, essays, devotionals, ...