Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

The poems of Ossian : &c. Containing the poetical works of James Macpherson, esq. In prose and rhyme by Macpherson, James, 1736-1796; Laing, Malcolm, 1762-1818. ed Publication date 1805 Usage ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 55, he writes, "Not marble nor the gilded monuments of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme," as he speaks of poetry's ability to defy time. That timeless idea, ahead of ...