It’s vividly evoked: music, violence, mud, heat, yellow fever, in a labyrinth of opera halls and coffee houses, brothels and swamps. Herrera sets particular emphasis on the city’s ugliest ...
The Role of Complexity Traditionally, complexity has been a hallmark of great poetry. Works like Eliot’s The Waste Land or Dickinson’s enigmatic musings invite readers into a labyrinth of ...
Right? A new study in the journal Scientific Reports finds that nonexpert readers can’t reliably distinguish between poems penned by William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot or Sylvia ...