A Long-Lost Library of Emily Brontë Poetry and Other Literary Artifacts Is Hitting the Auction Block
The elusive Emily Brontë left precious few handwritten artifacts behind. One could fetch about $1.5 million.
The elusive Emily Brontë left precious few handwritten artifacts behind. One could fetch about $1.5 million.
“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the so-called Black national anthem, was written by 20th-century novelist/poet/songwriter James Weldon Johnson as a rallying cry for perseverance and social justice.
Geoffrey Chaucer—known as the "father of English literature"—has written many texts, but none loom as large as 'The Canterbury Tales.'
If you're looking for something to do at home, tune into Patrick Stewart's Instagram every day to hear him read a different sonnet by Shakespeare.
The developers called the haikus “sometimes fun, often weird, most of the time pretty terrible. Also probably horrifying for haiku purists (sorry).”
The story of March Madness has everything: Chaucer, sex-crazed hares, Alice in Wonderland, lawsuits, and a basketball coach-turned-poet from Illinois.
The Library of Congress is home to the largest collection of Walt Whitman manuscripts on Earth, and it needs your help transcribing and reviewing them.
Valentine cards are a perfect way for secret admirers to express their love—they’re also perfect for doing the opposite.
The Romantic poets' verse was beautiful and inspired—and so were their insults, though not in the same way.
Read about Emily Dickinson, from her famous poems about love, hope, and death, to her legacy at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst.
Edgar Allan Poe's classic—and kind of creepy—narrative poem has been inspiring artists for nearly 175 years.
William Shakespeare had an enormous influence on "Paradise Lost" poet John Milton, and new evidence suggests that super fan Milton—who even wrote a poem called "On Shakespeare"—might have owned his idol's first folio.
Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, made history when she received the prestigious title of U.S. poet laureate.
Thanks to a computer algorithm, we know something new about the mysterious author of 'Beowulf:' It was likely just one person.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went on a crime spree during the Great Depression. They still found time to compose poetry.
Dylan's personal copy of "The Catcher in the Rye" is one of the rare items on display. In it, he wrote notes and drew doodles.
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go,” is just one of Langston Hughes's most memorable quotes.
It starts out easy and gets progressively harder.
The Nobel Prize-winning poet, who escaped the Holocaust, is the subject of today's Google Doodle.
Hester Pulter broke convention—and the expectations of her gender and class—by writing about science and politics.
Oscar Wilde, who was famous for his wit, once advised: "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
It eats visitor-suggested words and spits out poems.
Better late than never.
“The New Colossus" was a later addition, but it's become an essential part of how we think about the statue.