John Carey, the former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford who has died aged 91, was one of Britain’s most ­eminent ­literary critics, but one who ­always regarded himself as an outsider ...

RICHARDSON, TX, UNITED STATES, November 12, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- South Korean writer, scholar and humanitarian Sun Hyang Kim has been awarded the prestigious ...

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John Kruschke has done a lot of writing in academia — journal articles and a textbook on statistical analysis — but in retirement, he’s taken up poetry. Kruschke, who retired from the Department of ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full of reflection and digression and probing. By David Orr David Orr is the ...

Simon Schama celebrates the life and work of one of Britain's greatest love poets, John Donne. For Schama, Donne is the poet who transformed English poetry through his emotional honesty and skilled ...

Poetry at the Mansion series for 2025 will include events that explore satire, love and lust, holidays and much more ...

“O most gracious God,” wrote the eloquent sufferer, “on this sickbed I feel under your correction, and I taste of humiliation, but let me taste of consolation, too.” John Donne, poet and priest, so ...

Why do we humans make and listen to poetry? “The world is charged with the grandeur of God” — everything in it is worthy of our attention. A poet fixes our gaze on some God-created being or experience ...

Gleefully proclaiming the joys of rock ‘n’ roll, drugs and sex in the streets, John Sinclair reigned as a nationally celebrated troubadour of youth rebellion during the psychedelic era, playing a lead ...