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

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on ...

The institution in Ravenna houses objects kept by Countess Teresa Gamba Guicciolo, the noblewoman who had a relationship with ...

Geoffrey Bond often imagines Lord Byron "looking down" as he sits in what was once the 19th Century poet's former bedroom. The 85-year-old has lived in Burgage Manor in Southwell, Nottinghamshire ...

You could make a list noting similarities and differences between the two poems. Byron uses a highly regular poetic form of four line stanzas. Levertov uses two blocks of free verse. Byron’s ...