It is not known how “A Visit from St. Nicholas” came to be published in The Troy Sentinel in December of 1823.
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Welcome back to the 2025 year of The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. In 2024, we completed three “semesters,”...
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American literature - Poetry, Verse, Rhyme: The post-World War II years produced an abundance of strong poetry but no individual poet as dominant and...
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Nicholas Moore was one of the “New Apocalypse” English poets of the 1940s who reacted against the preoccupation with social and political issues of the...
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It's always dramatic when you leave London for a spell in the English countryside. In the English countryside, people still say hello.
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Edmund Spenser - Poet, Faerie Queene, Renaissance: In its present form, The Faerie Queene consists of six books and a fragment (known as the “Mutabilitie...
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The dramatic loosening of immigration restrictions in the mid-1960s set the stage for the rich multicultural writing of the last quarter of the 20th century.
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Here is everything you need to know about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' upbringing, genius, and eventual demise.
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The positive secular reviews that have come in for my off-Broadway verse drama, "Death Comes for the War Poets," show the power of art to touch hearts even...
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In an essay, Kirtinath Kurtkoti analyses the contributions of Da Ra Bendre to the establishment of a new poetic tradition in Kannada.
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