How J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels were inspired by Medieval poems of ‘northern bravery’: Knights travel to battle in an illustration from a Medieval manuscript. British Library, CC BY-SA In a moment of distraction from the laborious work of marking an “enormous pile of examination papers”, J.R.R. Tolkien flipped to a blank page on a student essay …
Controversy over poems at British Museum shows urgent need for more recognition for translators: Interior of the British Museum. MarkLG/Shutterstock The British Museum has had to apologise after a translator’s words were used without permission. Writer and translator Yilin Wang shared on Twitter that their translations of work by the Chinese feminist poet Qiu Jin …
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Check out this Paternoster image: British Library digitised image from page 8 of “A Twilight Teaching, and other poems” Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "A Twilight Teaching, and other poems" Author(s): Fisher, Lala [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 011651.f.4" Page: 8 (scanned page number – not necessarily the actual page …
A cool Camps Bay Beach image: Image from page 62 of “Book of song poems” (1905) Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: bookofsongpoems00alte Title: Book of song poems Year: 1905 (1900s) Authors: Alter, James Leander, 1859- Subjects: Publisher: [Remington? Ind.] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book …
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John Keats: how his poems of death and lost youth are resonating during COVID-19: John Keats by Joseph Severn (1819). National Portrait Gallery In John Keats’ poems, death crops up 100 times more than the future, a word that appears just once in the entirety of his work. This might seem appropriate on the 200th …
Poems for long distant loves in lockdown: Olga Strelnikova/Shutterstock Many people are not lucky enough to be with their loved ones this valentine’s day. If that is the case, or if you simply want suitable words to mark the day, then there are plenty of long-distance love poems that you can reach for, to share …
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A nice Kings Beach image: Image from page 297 of “Poems” (1900) Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: poems00lytt Title: Poems Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of, 1831-1891 Subjects: Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book …
Centenary of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela’s birth: a tribute in poems: Nelson Mandela's legacy in poetry can re-familiarise us with the values he embodied. EPA/Stringer The centenary of the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela offers a rich opportunity to reflect on the life of South Africa’s extraordinary political leader and on the legacies of the struggle …