Nonetheless, the Romans hold up. Childers brings home the importance particularly of Horace, not only on later Latin authors, but on all Western poetry that follows, more or less up to the present day ...
I shall not wholly die: some part of me will cheat the goddess of death. Thus wrote, not without reason, in 23 BCE the proud and self-conscious Horace. So far, he has been quite right - ancient ...
“There’s a tension between planning and future-tripping, and I’m trying not to future-trip too much” the MSNBC host says. “The first big thing that we all got to get our heads around is ...
When Horace Silver once wrote out his rules for musical composition (in the liner notes to the 1968 record, Serenade to a Soul Sister), he expounded on the importance of "meaningful simplicity." The ...
Magical and moving in equal measure, Carol Ann Duffy's Christmas poems never fail to warm the soul. Their stories span both countries and centuries, from the tale of the miraculous truce between the ...
The George Cross posthumously awarded to Horace 'Slim' Madden (1924-1951) was the highest decoration gained by an Australian in the Korean War. Madden was born at Cronulla, Sydney, and joined the ...
The First World War inspired profound poetry, words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle were evoked perhaps more vividly than ever before. The First World War poets – many of whom lost ...
Aringo’s loyalty to the party was so unabashed that Bishop Henry Okullu dismissed him as a “court poet and master of platitudes.” He, without battling an eyelid, cheered the detention without trial of ...
Mosab Abu Toha’s voice is smooth and melodic when he recites his poetry from his new home in New York. But when the Palestinian poet describes the people and the moments that inspired his ...