The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

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

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There’s never been a better time to herald our homegrown talent. Here, Globe staff share their favourite books by Canadians ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Guru Ravidass, one of the most famous so-called untouchable sages of the 15th-16th century, articulated an alternative genre ...

Hidden away in Asia lies a stunning ancient water town that's the East's version of Venice, home to epic bridges, stunning ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two ... She was one of the most famous writers in Denmark, but only became well-known to Anglophone readers when the English translation of her ...

Since the late 1800s, members of the famous family have pursued both political and philanthropic careers, holding offices that span from city council to Commander-in-Chief along with spearheading ...