National Poetry Month is coming up quickly! With the sun peeking out, snow melting, and everything in flux, there is … More
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Meet Armand Garnet Ruffo : Highlight of Poetry Month
The origin of the name April for the month we are currently experiencing comes from the Latin Aprills which means … More
Shakespeare for the Queen’s 90th Birthday
In honour of Her Majesty’s 90th birthday, the Prince of Wales chose a selection from Shakespeare to commemorate the occasion. … More
A Sonnet Upon Sonnets by Robert Burns
Fourteen, a sonneteer thy praises sings; What magic myst’ries in that number lie! Your hen hath fourteen eggs beneath her … More
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration … More
The Mystery of William Shakespeare?
Beginning in the middle of the 19th century, questions on whether Shakespeare was actually the author of the works thought … More
Sonnet 18 as read by Tom Hiddleston
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the … More
Shakespeare in Popular Music, part One
“Mediocre writers borrow. Great writers steal.“ T.S.Eliot Sometimes,it’s not really stealing, its is simply paying homage to great words and … More
On Shakespeare by John Milton 1608-1674
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour’d Bones, The labour of an age in pilèd Stones, Or that his hallow’d … More
Sonnet Twenty -Nine By William Shakespeare, adapted by Rufus Wainwright
Sonnet 29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf … More