THE natural product of a creed which ignores the æsthetical part of man and reduces Nature to a uniform drab would seem to have been Bernard Barton. His verse certainly infringed none of the ...

One of the earliest women to publish verse in English, Askew faced harrowing persecution and her suffering sings fiercely in this defiant story of faith The Ballad which Anne Askew Made and Sang When ...

Once the social structure has thoroughly been mapped out, staff should identify and analyze the culture … COUNTERINSURGENCY (December2006), Headquarters, Department of the Army Galloping with his drum ...

Since Poetry from Daily Life began Nov. 5, you’ve met poets from Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. We began in one paper — the Springfield News-Leader — now we’re ...

A ballad is a type of poem that was traditionally set to music. The word ‘ballad’ comes from the Latin ‘ballare’ which means to dance – it’s also where the word ‘ballet’ comes from. One sunny day, not ...

Every week, poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive. This time he selects ‘Lyrical Ballads’, a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in ...

It happens sometimes that you wish to listen to some music or poem while you eat, so why do we connect food and literature? Food, with its diverse textures, flavors, and cultural symbolism, becomes a ...