Asked who was the greatest French poet of the 19th century, André Gide cruelly replied, “Victor Hugo, alas!” We might be tempted to say something similar of English poetry: “Tennyson, alas!” Whitman ...

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It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and ...

The classical Greek name Odysseus is one of those given to Boris Johnson’s new son. The wily inventor of the Troy-winning wooden horse, who took 10 years to sail the few hundred miles home, was also ...

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