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Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...
A new dual-language translation of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil offers English readers the best way of ...
Carpenter likes nothing more than a theme: at one of her London shows, she acted out the “London Bridge” position, bending over backwards onstage to the delight of the crowd. Critics decided ...
Perhaps that is what Frost meant when he said that poetry “begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” These lyrics can be placed on a spectrum ranging from a few that seem entirely focussed upon a ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...
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AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Austin named its first-ever poet laureate on Tuesday. Zell Miller III will hold a two-year position to promote poetry, literacy and literary arts in Austin ...
Ghalib’s life was nothing but a poet’s dream; also inevitably ... Replete with such details, this is a historian’s delight. Not many have ventured to present Ghalib’s life at a glance.