Walt Whitman is considered one of the greatest poets in American history. Born the second of nine children in straitened circumstances in New York in 1819, he left school at age 11 to help support his ...

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My daughters arrived towards the end of the lunch and under pressure from their pushy mother one of them reluctantly recited ...

He thought back to the year 1952, when Mustafa was studying for his final exams for his master’s degree in English literature ...

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An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.” David Orr is the ...

Dario Cecchini is a man some call “the world’s most famous butcher,” and he’s brought his Italian family-style concept to a ...

Walter Bargen and Barbara Leonhard, two poets known and well-loved in mid-Missouri, recently released dispatches into the ...

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

At one point in the movie their son Will Reeve, who currently works as a journalist in the US, reads out an extract from one ...