Robert Lowell, American Poet By Robin Lindley / 11.10.2017 I believe that mania and genius not uncommonly...
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Classic narratives. From Cinderella, 1950. Photo by Rex Features By Veronique Greenwood / 11.18.2016 In recent years, literature...
P. T. Barnum’s white elephant Toung Taloung, featured in an extra supplement to the Illustrated London News, January...
A Little Free Library in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. / Creative Commons From seed banks to...
Libraries are a good place for kids to hole up during emergencies. Daria Chichkareva/Shutterstock.com By Grace Morris /...
San Fernando Valley Credit: Oakshade, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. David A. Wacks / 05.24.2017 Professor of Spanish Department of Romance...
Gebhard Fugel, ‘An den Wassern Babylons.’ Gebhard Fugel [Public domain] By Dr. David W. Stowe / 07.27.2017 Professor...
Hundreds of new images from Thoreau’s collection of plant specimens will be available for viewing online. “I...
A Houghton Library exhibit contains ephemera related to poet and scholar Henry David Thoreau, such as this...
Abandoned homes in Pripyat, 2km from Chernobyl. / Photo by Dana Sacchetti, IAEA Imagebank By Dr. David...
Kumeyaay coiled basket, woven by Celestine Lachapa, 19th century / Photo by Durova (Wikimedia Commons), San Diego Museum...
Woodcut of the morse from Olaus Magnus’ Historiae de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1558 edition) / archive.org Amongst the...
From Herman Melville’s Moby Dick / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jenny Davidson / 08.22.2016 Professor of English and...
Photo by Ken Howard By Dr. Eric A. Gordon / 06.01.2017 Almost a decade ago I had...
Restored ruins of the Temple of Hera, ancient Doric Greek temple at Olympia, Greece / Photo by...
Photo by Tom Murphy, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jack Lule Professor of Journalism and Communication Lehigh University...
Lecture by Dr. Belinda Jack at the Museum of London / 04.11.2017 Professor of Modern Languages Christ...
The Tower of Hercules overview / Wikimedia Commons One of the most popular of Greek heroes, Hercules...
Statue of Thomas Jefferson / Photo by Gage Skidmore, Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Ruth Finnegan Emeritus...
“Rig in Great-grandfather’s Cottage”, by W. G. Collingwood, 1908 / Public Domain By Kimberly Lin / 03.21.2017...
By Dr. Gregory Nagy / 03.13.2015 Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Professor of Comparative Literature...
The Old Drunkard, Hellenistic Sculpture, Late 3rd century BCE / Glyptothek, Munich By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz /...
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Augusto de Campos’s Lygia Fingers, a poem from 1953 for his wife-to-be, Lygia Azeredo, highlights the international...
Sinclair Lewis at the wheel of his automobile, ca. 1920s / Yale University Library Some three decades...
Sculptural Group of a Seated Poet (possibly Orpheus) with Two Sirens, 350–300 B.C., Greek, made in Tarentum,...
Cartoon of a galvanized corpse from the Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division. 10.15.2016 George Forster...
London Fog / From James Buntag, Twitter Lecture by Dr. Christine Corton at the Museum of London...
These four volumes of German poetry are wrapped in manuscript waste materials written in Hebrew. / J....
Dadupanthi Saints / Photo from University of Oxford By Dr. Monika Horstmann / 10.01.2015 Professor of Linguistics...
Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, novelist and poet Walter Scott’s phenomenally popular novels and poems created an...