The title for this playlist comes from Jericho Brown's poem "Crossing," which opens the book. Brown's poem ends "I'm more than a conqueror, bigger / than bravery. I don't march. I'm the one who ...

tennyson's war poem.; a ballad of the fleet--the action in flores harbor--bravery of a british vice-admiral. share full article. april 7, 1878.

Epic tales of Arab bravery. In the courtyard of a restored Mamluk mansion in Cairo, an old man stirs his audience with the epic poem of the Banu Hilal tribe, a legend of past Arab bravery.

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 and scribbled, “in a hole in the ...

Danez Smith’s “Bluff” represents a notable turning point for the poet — and maybe for American poetry as a whole. By Nam Le Nam Le is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection ...

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail.

How J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels were inspired by Medieval poems of ‘northern bravery’ Published: September 1, 2023 ... where he worked on a translation of the 14th-century Middle English poem, ...