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- An emperor for our times - Scotsman
Times OnlineAn emperor for our timesScotsman, United Kingdom - 5 hours agoA Spanish parvenu who loved all things Greek, a ruthless politician who adored philosophy and wrote poetry, a military man who put his armies into reverse, ...Emperor Hadrian's legions of admirers Telegraph.co.ukall 14 news articles
- WH Auden struggles for the conch - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukWH Auden struggles for the conchTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoThe Picasso of poetry? Think about the virtuosic display of multiple styles in The Waste Land. Philip Larkin, diagnosing the relative failure of Auden's ...
- Bettina Buck in London (and Berlin) - ARTINFO
ARTINFOBettina Buck in London (and Berlin)ARTINFO, NY - 14 hours agoIn these sculptures Buck wrests poetry out of the commonplace and, employing what she calls “a kind of broken or less-than-fluent language or dialect,” ...
- Death in Breslau, By Marek Krajewski trs Danusia Stok (Independent)
Breslau is now Wroclaw in Silesia, west Poland, a thriving university city 190km from Warsaw and 160km from the German border. Ever since its origination in the eighth century, the city's position on the east-west trade route, the corridor of central Europe, has attracted a huge variety of migrants, and no end of trouble. From Vandals and Goths and Huns to Czechs, Silesians, Jews and Lusatians, ...
- RIK JOKES ABOUT UNI'S 'TERRIBLE MISTAKE' - Express & Echo
Express & EchoRIK JOKES ABOUT UNI'S 'TERRIBLE MISTAKE'Express & Echo, UK - 1 hour agoThe pair met when Rik, who is also a novelist, was performing political poetry above a strip club in London. Paul then received Rik's scripts for the Young ...
- Bookstore event (Bradenton Herald)
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- Revealingly yours, Philip Larkin - Times Online
Revealingly yours, Philip LarkinTimes Online, UK - 31 minutes agoSecond, it seemed to open up a new way of understanding the poetry. We are all familiar with Larkin the gritty scribe, able to capture everyday scenes ...
- The battle that reshaped children’s literature. - New Yorker
New YorkerThe battle that reshaped children’s literature.New Yorker, United States - 3 hours agoShe celebrated the holidays of immigrants (reading Irish poetry aloud, for instance, on St. Patrick’s Day) and stocked the shelves with books in French, ...
- The Labor and the Booby-Trapped Baby - Dar Al Hayat
With roses and flowers; with songs, melodies and poetry; with dabkeh, parades and all kinds of dances; with drums and flutes; with orange blossom water incense; with the smiles of children; with the tranquility of the elderly and the feelings of ...
- 'Exiles' is sure to get its claws in your brain (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Here is what happened when I began raving to some (very nice) friends about “Exiles,” a new novel by Ron Hansen about how the 19th-century Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins came to write perhaps his most inaccessible poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” after hearing of the death of five German nuns in a shipwreck on the shoals of the Thames.
- Asia's love of 'living art' koi fish growing (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Koi, an ornamental fish which enthusiasts liken to a moving work of art, are gaining popularity across Asia thanks to changing lifestyles and increasingly sophisticated tastes, experts say.
- Motherhood comes naturally, mothering doesn’t DAWN hENWOOD - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Motherhood comes naturally, mothering doesn’t DAWN hENWOODTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 3 hours agoUnfortunately for our culture, we’ve limited most of our descriptions of motherhood to the trite poetry of Mother’s Day cards. ...
- T Posting Board (Townsend Times)
Calendar Friday, July 18 Teddy Town: 10:30 a.m., Townsend Public Library front lawn; Mobile teddy bear company allows visitors to chose their materials, stuffings and outfits and make their own teddy bear, followed by a Teddy Bear Picnic on the lawn.
- A Return To Native Stomping Grounds - The Bulletin
Philadelphia - It all began at Philadelphia's Overbrook High School back in the 1950s, when several guys got together to make music. The trip continued through a wild and wonderful ride to the top of the music charts, spanning decades as the group ...
- Shakespeare on Film: The Animated Tales - MovieMaker Magazine
MovieMaker MagazineShakespeare on Film: The Animated TalesMovieMaker Magazine, NY - 17 minutes agoThe scripts inevitably emphasize plot over character (Romeo and Juliet becomes almost absurdly frenetic), and use formal prose narration, delivered in ...
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