Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, ...

The Mahabharata, one of Hindu mythology's oldest and most significant epics, is a complex story that cannot easily be ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...