Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novel “Heaven and Hell” recounts a 19th-century fishing trip and its aftermath. John Self is a book ...

In his new memoir, Bill Gates doesn’t mention any study of William Wordsworth’s writings. But when I read Source Code: My ...

Unfortunately, the “conventional teacher” runs the risk of reducing a William Wordsworth classic to ... we built up a decent collection of books on poems but have also made inroads into ...

A book of verse, professedly written in the sonnet genre, may appear as restrictive and constraining as to its scope and expanse but like the Urdu ghazal may contain a kaleidoscope of subjects, ...

Scotland celebrates its beloved poet on Burns Night with a Burns Supper ... Visitors over the decades have included William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats.

What have our universities become? What have they lost? Yes, they are reliable providers of professional training, as Western ...

When Alabama native Erin Crosby Eckstine decided to write a book, she wanted to create a persona she rarely sees depicted in literature — a “well-rounded and human portrayal of an enslaved character.” ...

They met at the tiny Capel-y-ffin chapel on the Monmouthshire/Powys border and walked up the Twmpa - also known as Lord Hereford’s Knob - in the Black Mountains returning via the valley of Nant Bwch.

A quarter of a century later, precisely and recently, the boy and the father returned to Yosemite Falls to try and relive ...

William Blake saw angels as a child; William Wordsworth felt transcendence climbing Mount Snowdon. Mr Critchley displays strong scholarship, citing a letter from T.S. Eliot—whose poem ...