Even admirers admitted his densely intellectual work could be “punishing.” Still, some considered him one of England’s most ...

I’ve never quite bought the old witticism, attributed to the Irishman George Bernard Shaw, that Britain and the United States are “two nations divided by a common language.” But while there’s a ...

AN excursion through eight or ten centuries of verse is an undertaking like the circumnavigation of the globe; the space to be traversed is so great that it takes a life-time to make the way familiar.

During a brief, but incredibly productive year at the end of the 18th century, British poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge joined forces to launch a literary revolution: the English ...

LONDONLONDON — Benjamin Zephaniah, a British poet, political activist and actor who drew huge inspiration from his Caribbean roots, has died. He was 65. Zephaniah died Thursday after being diagnosed ...

(JTA) – “Benediction,” a new biopic of the British anti-war poet Siegfried Sassoon, opens with a Sassoon poem called “Concert Interpretation.” In it, the author describes a British audience’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — Benjamin Zephaniah, a British ...