I appreciated her continued reference to Greek mythology, which entranced me into the world her words created. She carried on with the allusions in the following poem: Study of Two Figures (Midas / ...

Is that show’s title an allusion as well ... What is the name of the Greek work? Which 1951 poem by Langston Hughes gave the playwright Lorraine Hansberry the title for her 1959 stage play ...

Thus the Greek poetry of the great age was not merely inspired ... that his Athenian audience will seize each of his innumerable allusions to fellowcitizens, whom we may suppose to have been ...

Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions ... REUTERS Influenced by Shakespeare, Greek mythology and Eliot among others, she questioned ...

A chance inquiry by an unidentified collector has led to a spectacular literary discovery: Parts of two previously unknown poems by Sappho, the great Greek poetess of the 7th Century B.C. One of ...

Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered on an ancient papyrus. An anonymous collector happened to show the papyrus to the Oxford University ...

Just for a couple of years, we said, a dozen years back. Nothing is more permanent than the temporary. We dine sitting on folding chairs—they were cheap but cheery. We’ve taped the broken ...

in tandem, Davis in English and Klampanis in Greek, to mesmerizing effect. Image The poet Robin Coste Lewis ... with frequent quotations from and allusions to Cavafy, Iyer and Zeigler played ...

The poet Wisława Szymborska was a 16-year-old in ... an empty cradle.” In “A Greek Statue,” Szymborska considers a marble figure with only its torso remaining. “People and other disasters ...

When Greeks want to gesture “No,” they nod: a little upward snap of the head. The confusion that this can produce in visitors has long been an object of amusement for the locals—and the ...