Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

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On Wednesday, the Stanford Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures hosted a colloquium featuring Stuart H. Goldberg, who discussed the process of poets signaling, and readers interpreting, the ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Bimal Roy's 'Devdas', a 1955 classic, is a poignant masterpiece of Indian cinema. Dilip Kumar's portrayal of a doomed lover ...