Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

IT’S very surprising there has never been a poll to find the nation’s favourite Christmas poem. The field is wide, as might be illustrated by two contrasting four liners. Paradoxically both ...

English cryptographer Leo Marks wrote these beautiful verses in Christmas ... vow to do your best? At first glance, Ian Duhig’s marriage ditty is not the most romantic of poems - but it could ...

to write an accompaniment for a poem that he had written two years earlier. That night, the two men sang their brand new song at St Nicholas church and one of our best-loved Christmas Carols was born.

The Lovecraftian oil rig horror game Still Wakes the Deep is a masterpiece of atmospheric horror. There are so many ...

What defines Dryden’s poetry and his poetic achievement and how might we best situate his work in a history of English poetry? To Dryden’s place in that history, we shall come at the end of this ...

The film holds a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and won the Academy Award for Best ... on a poem that Burton wrote while working as a Disney animator in the 1980s. The Nightmare Before Christmas has ...

You could read his literary output in a single day, yet it includes almost all there is to know about what the English ...

Reflect on how it felt to perform a poem. This short film will be relevant for teaching English at primary school.

"The Bachelorette" is back with its first Asian-American lead in the show's history. Jenn Tran of Miami first appeared on ...

The English poet, playwright and actor William ... His first two printed works were long poems titled "Venus and Adonis" in 1593 and "The Rape of Lucrece" in 1594. The Renaissance Era writer ...

Carmy, Sydney, Richie, and the gang bring as much heart, anxiety, and intensity as ever. Yet a slew of real-chef cameos, ...