Ocean Vuong was just two when his family fled post-war Vietnam and came to the US. He only learned to read and write English ...

Honored for her poetry and her fiction, Ms. Howe "was truly one of the great poets of Boston and Cambridge," said poet and ...

Irony is not a creation of modern times, though it has evolved with them. Classical poets like Jonathan Swift and T.S. Eliot used irony as a powerful instrument. Swift’s infamous satire, A Modest ...

Ticket to ride on the London Metro If Underground movements are your cuppa tea – or Matcha Latte – hop aboard. ‘Mind the Gap between the train and the platform. This is the Jubilee ...

Mysticism is a concept that famously, perhaps even by definition, refuses to be pinned down. In 1911, the English writer Evelyn Underhill called it “a certain spiritual and intangible quest: the ...

Although TS Eliot was arguably the most influential literary critic of the 20th century, for decades, scholars worked without a collected edition of his critical prose, which was scattered through the ...

Missing letters, a secret love affair, a famous poet, a beautiful actress — what else could you possibly want in a story? ...

T. S. Eliot spent his childhood summers in a seaside house on Gloucester’s Eastern Point. Last year, the heads of the T. S. Eliot Foundation, bought it — and plan to turn it into a center and ...

TS Eliot’s The Waste Land is imbued with Sanskrit references. Apart from ending with the refrain Shantih Shantih Shantih, Eliot also refers to three other alliterative Sanskrit terms—datta ...