If you’re fed up with the crowds in Venice, head to Ravenna, with its dazzling mosaics and evocative museum dedicated to the ...

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The Thousand and One Nights is an ‘infinite text’: it has no fixed shape or length, no known author and is transformed with each new translation. In this first episode of Fiction and the Fantastic, ...

Byron Rogers ... honesty of the poems was not an affectation, exactly, but nor was it as straightforward as it seems. Rogers quotes in full Death of a Peasant, remarking its fine qualities. Reading it ...

Lord Byron wasn’t just a romantic poet; he earned his reputation from many aspects of his persona and talents, namely securing a legacy that ventured far beyond the parameters of verse. Instead, he ...

6th Baron — aka Lord Byron, the English poet who fought for the Greeks against the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s. It was purchased by Jonathan Peckham Miller of Montpelier, who arrived in Greece ...

I see 25-year-old Delmore, in 1939, basking in his precocious success, as dapper a poet as there had been since Lord Byron ... James Atlas’s authoritative biography, Delmore Schwartz: The ...

Lord Byron would probably have scoffed to be called an “influencer”. Yet he exemplified the role, influencing artists beyond his own country and lifetime perhaps more than any other 19th-century poet.

"What statue of Lord Byron?" you might wonder. The likeness of the poet is not exactly London's most prominent work of art. It languishes on a traffic island at the southern end of Park Lane.