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

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

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

Books & the Arts / From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Orlando Reade In September 2023, the ...

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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 presses or maybe even written work yet.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivered opening remarks Wednesday at Little Rock's Statehouse Convention Center as Indian ...

Partly as a critique of the patriarchal, aristocratic values valorized by the official line of many epic poems, AEdnan is genuinely interested in epic’s capacity to shape a people’s sense of ...

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Now that the weather is warming, it's time for the epic-length poems to be found/'Cause it's National Poetry Month, just as sure as there's piled-up snow on the ground.

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war.