Catullus Reading his Poems at Lesbia's House (detail), an 1870 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Bridgeman The heart of the reviewer can sink upon receiving a doorstop titled something like The ...

From Jean de Meun in the late thirteenth century to Christine dePizan in the early fifteenth, medieval French poets often aimed toimpart theological, philosophical, or moral ideas. To unify ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The connection between poetry and natural science has a long tradition in the genre of the didactic poem. It has become evident that the ...

"That it is not the business of the poet to teach virtue is an absurdly modern theory," said Heathcote William Garrod, delivering the first of the Charles Eliot Norton lectures last night in the Large ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Well I don't know about you, but when I studied science the essay was king. Nowadays, I ...

WHETHER we are to regard history as an analysis of tendencies or as a biography of individuals is ultimately a question, not of absolute truth and falsehood, but of relative temperament. If the ...