The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has been expressed by protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in ...
Famous quote ‘Give me liberty or give me death’ turns 250 years old - here is its origins - Patrick Henry uttered the famous ...
Paris Angels and Black Grape guitarist Paul Wagstaff has died, it has been announced. His friends and fans paid tribute to ...
An insomniac’s musings on World Sleep Day, Shakespeare’s obsession with sleep, Keats’ poetic drowsiness, Murakami’s soporific ...
Bard bashing has become something of a national sport, says Robert McCrum, and the latest attempt to rewrite the legacy of ...
The girl-power premise behind Lauren Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle has good stuff, but is unevenly executed.
Of American poets born after the Civil War, Pound and Eliot have the strongest claim on long attention, though both in recent ...
On March 10, 2025, the Wisconsin Book Festival hosted the University of Wisconsin Creative Writing Department’s six masters ...
A rare original handwritten copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 has re-emerged in a 17th-century manuscript. The text, which is very different from the usual version, sheds more light on the political ...
It is one of the poems that, however often it is read ... how Shakespeare’s work found life in the years after his death. For Shakespeare scholars, it suggests that the sonnets had more sticking ...
A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ... Shakespeare, said the "exciting discovery" would help researchers understand the Bard's popularity in the decades following his death.