With $10,000 in his bank, he wagered $2,000. The clue read, “Henry Purcell’s opera, The Fairy Queen, isn’t based on Edmund Spenser’s poem but on this Shakespeare play.” Weikert answered ...

Drawing from The Faerie Queene (1590) an epic poem by Edmund Spenser, the reverse depicts a young and fair Queen Victoria walking alongside a lion. It’s estimated to sell for 250,000 CHF ($284,000).

A collector hid his treasure from the Nazis, his widow kept it secret for decades, but now Roman aurei, Greek staters and British pounds so rare that some have never been sold at public auction have ...

Berryman came to Cambridge in 1936 with a burning desire to make change: ‘I haven’t quite got the hang of the stuff yet / but ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

March 20, 2025 • Dick Warwick reads a poem by Robin Magnuson ...