Two of the greatest French Renaissance poets credited with founding a revolutionary movement in French literature were deaf poets: Pierre de Ronsard, the Prince of Poets, and Joachim Du Bellay. They ...

Twice a week, I meet with two elderly men to read poems out loud. The poems are ancient, even older than us. They’re usually love sonnets or war epics or, sometimes, the lyrics of traditional songs.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California Gov. Gavin Newsom used a profane metaphor to accuse President Donald Trump of toying with America and “testing” the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. [1]All Chinese calligraphy in the ...

On this week’s episode, A.O. Scott joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about the value of close reading poetry. And the Book Review’s poetry editor Greg Cowles recommends four recently published ...

In second grade, he named his new dog after the ancient mythical Irish warrior Cú Chulainn. In third grade, he locked onto the Tolkien canon. In ninth grade, he began a six-year project writing a ...

There’s a lot to unpack: a No. 1 chasing her first Paris breakthrough, a draw packed with trapdoors and a handful of players riding momentum into Roland Garros. From Iga Swiatek’s historic pursuit to ...

Jean-Luc Godard was not a fan of conventional scripts. In line with his avant-garde methods, the French director resisted detailed write-ups and meticulous planning, preferring to hastily draft ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a chivalric literary historian who has studied the origins of the holiday, I find this a shame. When the notion of Valentine’s ...