For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

Teaching literature is an exercise in freedom. Now ideological demands from the right are putting it in danger.

Epic poems are more complex than they are often given credit for. They tell us of the failings of great men and the downfalls caused by pride—moments that aren’t “epic” in the modern ...

“Epic poetry has shaped the way that we perceive our universe. We’ve used these epics to justify ourselves,” Headley said. “Now is the moment to open the doors. ...

Eliot once wrote of his own epic poem, “The Wasteland,” “These fragments I have shored against my ruins.” So, too, with Micheal O’Siadhail.

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s epic poem “Algarabía” follows the journey of its protagonist, Cenex, on the Isle of Algarabía, a fantastical projection of Puerto Rico, referred to in the poem ...

PJ Harvey's latest album is I Inside the Old Year Dying.It's a knotty musical expansion of the world she created in Orlam, the epic poem Harvey published in 2022. Steve Gullick/Courtesy of the ...

I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t have printing ...

Epic poems are more complex than they are often given credit for. They tell us of the failings of great men and the downfalls caused by pride—moments that aren’t “epic” in the modern ...