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English essayist, philosopher, poet, historian, and statesman Sir Francis Bacon was born in London, England (1561). He spent much of his ...

Dan Barry inaugurated the "This Land" column for The New York Times in January of 2007, after writing the "About New York...

Dover Beach The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;--on the French coast the light Gleams and ...

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) I LEANT upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening ...

Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or ben...

Travel literature is travel writing considered to have value as literature. Travel literature typically records the people, events, sights a...

Poet and novelist Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri (1902). His father divorced his mother and moved to Mexico when Hughes was ju...

Poem: "Jet Lag" by Eve Robillard, from when gertrude married alice. © Parallel Press, 2004. Reprinted with permission. Jet Lag He ...

Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts (1941). After college he decided to join the Peace Corps in 19...

Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson near Daresbury, Cheshire, England (1832). He is best known as the author of Alice's Ad...

Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 – March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key fig...

Novelist and teacher Wallace Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa (1909). His father was a schemer who was constantly moving the family fr...

The Globe Theater was burned to the ground. For more than 10 years, it had been the most popular theater in London, and it was the theater w...

Sonnet 129 The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of...

i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whateve...

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have l...

I HAD no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity. Nor had I time to love; but sin...

The 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia (1856). He was one of the few American preside...

Short story writer Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon (1938). He's known for writing pared-down, realistic stories about work...