From ‘Six studies of a cat’ by Thomas Gainsborough, 1763–70 The poet Christopher Smart — also known...
Poetry
Watercolour portrait by William Buckler of Robert Hunt, 1842 — Wellcome Library, Creative Commons In 1848, the mineralogist,...
By Dr. Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Gertrude Conaway Distinguished Vanderbilt Professor of Humanities (AADS and French) Vanderbilt University In...
Georg Trakl in 1910 – Wikimedia Commons To mark the 100th anniversary of the death by cocaine overdose...
The painting depicts the end of the 1381 peasant’s revolt, mentioned in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The image...
Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos (or possibly Battle of Gaugamela), floor...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romantic poet and co-author of ‘Lyrical Ballads’. Image credit: National Portrait Gallery Much of...
Achilles sacrificing to Zeus for Patroclus’ safe return, from the Ambrosian Iliad, a 5th-century illuminated manuscript. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Gregory...
Dying Achilles (Achilleas thniskon) in the gardens of the Achilleion / Photo by Dr.K., Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Gregory Nagy...
“I’m a Dylan professor and a Dylan fan,” says Harvard Professor Richard Thomas, who teaches a popular...
Portrait of Robert Bridges, taken sometime between 1910 and 1915 / Library of Congress, Public Domain In...
Stefan Zweig / Creative Commons By Will Stone / 12.02.2013 Poet, Translator ‘Friendship stands highest on the...
By Dr. Gregory Nagy Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Professor of Comparative Literature Director, Center...
Robert Lowell, American Poet By Robin Lindley / 11.10.2017 I believe that mania and genius not uncommonly...
The Knight from the Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales By Dr. Eric Weiskott / 09.15.2017 Assistant...
Lecture by Dr. Belinda Jack at the Museum of London / 04.11.2017 Professor of Modern Languages Christ...
Beba Coca Cola (Drink Coca Cola), 1957, Décio Pignatari. Screen print from Poesia concreta in Brasile (Milan:...
“Rig in Great-grandfather’s Cottage”, by W. G. Collingwood, 1908 / Public Domain By Kimberly Lin / 03.21.2017...
Augusto de Campos’s Lygia Fingers, a poem from 1953 for his wife-to-be, Lygia Azeredo, highlights the international...
Sculptural Group of a Seated Poet (possibly Orpheus) with Two Sirens, 350–300 B.C., Greek, made in Tarentum,...
Frosty temperatures at Vindolanda in winter 2014. / Photo by the Vindolanda Trust, Creative Commons By Dr....
BrightStar By Dr. Dorothy Jakobsh Professor of Religious Studies University of Waterloo, Canada What is today known...
By Oriah Mountain Dreamer / 10.30.2016 What do you ache for? An exquisite and potent poem about...
By Daniel Penny / 08.02.2016 Those who are truly contemporary, who truly belong to their time, are...
The elements of art, described entirely in verse—using real and mythological creatures By Porche’ Carter / 08.09.2016...
The idea of a human’s life being divisible into distinct stages has been around for millennia, a...
Lesser Hippias / Plato By Dr. Michael Davis Professor of Philosophy Illinois Institute of Technology Cogent Arts...
Photo by Louis Cahill By Brian Jeganathan / 05.28.2016 In January last year, I visited Mullaitivu. Since...
Image courtesy Sri Lanka Brief Anonymous Poem I have learned humility, to respect my brother, to walk...
Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com By Dr. Aaron Brady Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Texas Does “African poetry”...