If you’re fed up with the crowds in Venice, head to Ravenna, with its dazzling mosaics and evocative museum dedicated to the ...
Laker legend Byron Scott admitted he wouldn't be able to coach in today's NBA. Coaching has significantly changed over the past few decades in the NBA, drawing attention from Los Angeles Lakers ...
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, ...
separating biography from criticism as Johnson’s Lives of the Poets do? And if we did, would the notion of literary biography as we know it survive? Alert to such problems, Byron Rogers takes a ...
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 ...
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 ...
The letters to and from him show well his essential change. Andrew Stauffer's new biography is valuable, Byron: A Life in Ten Letters which begins each chapter with a letter from the poet's pen (and ...
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.
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's decision to take his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is "hugely important for Wales", an author has said. Jeff Towns, who wrote Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas ...
Bob Dylan has a number of links to Dylan Thomas, said author Jeff Towns Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's decision to take his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is "hugely important for ...