There's still time to enter your short stories, poems or essays in the New Orleans Public Library's Winter Writing Contest with the theme "Escape." ...

One theme that Tolkien picked up from his work in medieval literature – and which runs like a thread throughout his fictional worlds – is the reckless bravery and heroic courage that many medieval ...

MR. TENNYSON'S WAR POEM.; A BALLAD OF THE FLEET--THE ACTION IN FLORES HARBOR--BRAVERY OF A BRITISH VICE-ADMIRAL. April 7, 1878 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context ...

But this is the story of Beowulf, a poem once told in timber-framed barns in Anglo-Saxon England, to the raucous noise of the mead-swilling crowd.

How to honour a VC hero was the question circulating Sittingbourne when the town learned of Lieut Donald Dean’s bravery at Christmas, 1918. One of the answers was – a poem! Official ...