Jane Campion's comeback transforms the legendary poet John Keats into a pathetic wimp Last updated at 4:17 PM on 06th November 2009 Bright Star (PG) Bright Star is New Zealander Jane Campion's comeback film, six years after In The Cut ,...

In this article: Jane Campion, John Keats, Bright Star, Ben Whishaw, An Education, Brideshead Revisited, Abbie Cornish, Carey Mulligan, and The Piano

...Oct. 20, 2009 Plagiarism-detection software was created with lazy, sneaky college students in mind not the likes of William Shakespeare. Yet the software may have settled a centuries-old mystery over the authorship of an unattributed...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Brian Vickers, Edward III, Literature, Thomas Kyd, Homer, London, and Injunction

...personal essays on Westminster Abbey. This fact reminds me of the shrewd remark made by a descendant of Oscar Wilde who averred that it was fitting that Oscar had been honoured by a window rather than a monument because a window was "neither...

In this article: Alan Bennett, WH Auden, Benjamin Britten, The History Boys, Andrew Motion, Ian McKellen, Kafka's Dick, National Theatre, and Philip Larkin

Jane Campion's film Bright Star is a wistful and melancholic account of the unconsummated romance between the poet John Keats and his neighbour Fanny Brawne. Jane Campion's film Bright Star is a wistful and melancholic account of the...

In this article: John Keats, Bright Star, Jane Campion, Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Antagonism, Charles Brown, Endymion, and Kerry Fox

Susan Whitall / Detroit News Music Writer The beauty of being a Bob Dylan fan is, no matter when you jumped aboard his train, the ride is diverting, it takes countless unexpected turns and the subject lends himself to endless study and...

In this article: Bob Dylan, Dylan, Charlie Sexton, Sirius XM, Christmas album, Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie, The Band, and Feeding America

...story collection, which sought to castigate the narcissistic men of 20th-century fiction. His gaze was fixed, seemingly, on John Updike. In the title experiment, various anonymous men respond to questions about what kind of sex they've had,...

In this article: John Krasinski, David Foster Wallace, He's Just Not That into You, Dominic Cooper, Chris Messina, Max Minghella, The Office, American Idol, David Mamet, and John Updike

...Craythorne steals a book. He can't read, but the pictures in the book intrigue him - we learn later that it's the poems of William Blake , and a sign that Arthur is struggling towards some kind of spiritual awakening. It is interrupted by...

In this article: Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend, First World War, Cancer, and William Blake

...and father alike. Tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Wellesley Booksmith shop, the Watertown resident will read from his adaptation of the Shakespeare classic. Hinds has distilled all of the play's betrayal, passion, action, and poetry into...

In this article: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Beowulf, The Odyssey, The Merchant of Venice, Grendel, Candlewick Press, Bard, and Homer

...librarian at the Clark in Los Angeles , recalled a battle several years ago for a college notebook of Oscar Wilde's , written during 1876 and 1878 when he was at Magdalen College at Oxford , as well as the autobiography of his lover, Lord Alfred...

In this article: Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Oscar Wilde, and Los Angeles

...issue especially when it is a publicly funded library." HUNTINGTON BEACH -- A district superintendent decided Tuesday night to keep Maya Angelou's autobiography in middle school libraries but added a restriction that parents must provide...

In this article: Maya Angelou, American Library Association, Huntington Beach, School board, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

...Shadow of No Towers," Jonathan Safran Foer's " Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ," Frederic Beigbeder's "Windows on the World," and John Updike's " Terrorist." We asked Versluys, a professor of American literature and culture at Ghent...

In this article: John Updike, Ghent University, Falling Man, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, Don DeLillo, Terrorist, and Belgium

Books, authors and all things bookish When it comes to handling ghosts, the characters in Oscar Wilde's " The Canterville Ghost " (in a new recording from Naxos Audio Books) are far bolder than Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol. " When...

In this article: Oscar Wilde, Coal, Waste, The Canterville Ghost, Ebenezer Scrooge, Los Angeles Times, and Cormac McCarthy

...BEACH The superintendent of a Huntington Beach elementary school district said he will decide Tuesday whether to ban an autobiography by Maya Angelou from middle school libraries a book opponents say has inappropriate material for...

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...to supply. The museum's exhibition "The Expanding Eye" features pieces of art inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The art is meant to emphasize Poe 's craving for knowledge of creativity and the world beyond tangible reality. With 19...

In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, Hop Frog, Halloween, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Fall of the House of Usher

...at the Greensboro Coliseum , but homecoming will be alive and well on campus this weekend. The school is banking on guests like poet Maya Angelou and R&B group The Temptations Review as officials begin to re-brand homecoming as more about the...

In this article: Maya Angelou, Grammy Award, Dennis Edwards, Greensboro Coliseum, National Book Award, Cloud Nine, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, and Gucci Mane

...is known as "Quirk's Exception". 2. Poe 's Law Not to be confused with the law of poetry enshrined by Edgar Allan Poe , the internet Poe 's Law states: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a...

In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, Zanu, Google Groups, Terry Pratchett, Robert Mugabe, and PZ Myers

By Andrew Stern and Matt Cowan Deciphering William Shakespeare plays in school essays apparently was not enough for two university students who have written a book of Twitter entries that summarize and satirize works of literature.

In this article: Twitter, Odysseus, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Iphone, Hamburger, Sandwich, and Macbeth

Source: Xlibris Homer 's Immortal Character -- Achilles -- Returns to the Battlefield in Gripping Novel -- New Book About the Life and Times of the Legendary Greek Warrior is An Official Entry to This Year's New York Library Association...

In this article: Achilles, Homer, Colorado, Literature, Adams State College, and Niagara Falls