The gift of verse may carry extra cachet this Valentine's Day, on the heels of Taylor Swift's announcement that her next album is poetry-themed. But in carrying out my research on Renaissance ...
This book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our understanding of the poems. It begins with an ...
Poetry is rising in popularity in the UK as social media drives an unexpected renaissance in the often overlooked genre. Last year, sales of poetry books reached £14.4 million – their highest ...
The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the growth of ...
Looking back at the trans-national book phenomenon of ‘The Executed Renaissance’ – a Ukrainian literary anthology published by Jerzy Giedroyc in 1959 in France that paid tribute to the generation of ...
The lead coffin thought to contain the remains of Joachim du Bellay The tomb of one of France’s best-loved early poets has been discovered during post-fire restoration work in Notre-Dame cathedral.