Yeats later regretted his luggage purchase, because his topcoat wouldn’t fit —giving a whole new meaning to his line, “the center cannot hold” — until his hostess, Poetry Magazine ...

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) can be read ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

Our critic A.O. Scott admires its craft — and its wildness. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems don’t have to be perfect, but this one pretty much is. I mean that less as praise — though it ...

The New York Times interviewed more than 60 people familiar with Mr. Musk’s effort to piece together new details about it. By The New York Times Read the full report on how Elon Musk executed ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

Star Wars is going far and wide in the coming years across all forms of media with an updated Star Wars timeline that includes new eras. Here's our summary. As Star Wars prepares to transition ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The Marvel timeline is pretty tricky to navigate at the best of times. With more than a decade of releases under the studio's belt, there's an awful lot to consider when it comes to what happens when.

Elizabeth I died childless so was succeeded by her cousin, James VI of Scotland, who henceforth assumed the title of James I of England as well. James's accession meant that the three separate ...

Below is a timeline of major historical events over the last 30 years: 1991 Dec. 1, 1991: Ukraine votes for independence Amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine votes for independence in ...