MR. SYMONDS’S volumes are are vision of two books, entitled respectively Studies of the Greek Poets and Studies of the Greek Poets (Second Series), published in London ; the first in 1873, and the ...

A new group of poets is changing the arts landscape in Greece. Fearless, global and with an artistic fervour unseen since the dictatorship, they tell us their hopes, the culture that excites them – ...

THE subject which I have chosen for to-day’s lecture might seem to you rather remote from the topic of English literature, at least, from the topic of English literature as taught in Japan. Here the ...

In poverty stricken Greece, poetry is getting richer. Karen Van Dyck, editor of a new anthology, looks at an artform in revolution When there is less to go around, people fight, grab, get tough.

Greek poet Konstantinos Kavafis brought an international aura to modern Greek poetry, by being a master at saying a lot with ...

The poet Jack Spicer famously compared the poet to a radio: when the writer is really listening in, he or she simply receives transmissions at a certain frequency. Ultimately, Spicer implies, there’s ...

Prof. Anne Pippin Burnett, a renowned scholar of Greek poetry and a UChicago faculty member for more than three decades, passed away April 26 at her home in Kingston, Ontario. She was 91. Burnett ...

It is useful to think of the literature of Ancient Greece in three phases. It begins with Homer and Hesiod, masters of the “epic” poem, and ends with the dramatists and the prose of the philosophers ...

Natalie Haynes has carved a unique space in literature by breathing new life into ancient Greek myths. Through novels like 'A ...