While the exact cause of his death remains a mystery, “The Raven” lives on as one of the author’s most influential works—not to mention one of the most famous poems ever written.

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The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Two snipers stationed on opposite sides of a fog-covered crevice meet cute, and have to protect the world—and each other. There’s an element of the ridiculous to this movie. But also real ...

Yet that use gave way, in time, to the works of poets, lovestruck or mournful or martial ... The diaries of Samuel Pepys are only the most famous, and both he and Boswell (among others) did not ...

As people do, I write practical, purpose-built lists even when I suspect I will neglect them. They are like ...

We accept that a narrative is a fragment chipped off from ... working on translations of his erotic poems, and Ida is drawn to Ibsen, the ultimate Norwegian literary father figure.

In cinemas today you can watch Timothée Chalamet impersonate Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown. For Esquire, Mick Brown — one of the rare journalists to have interviewed the great man in ...