I START from a patent fact,—the widespread ignorance of classical literature on the part of persons who have received a classical education. It is not the scholarship of scholars that is here impugned ...

Tolstoy, Austen and Dickens. The legends of literature like F. Scott Fitzgerald, who could convey stories with immaculate detail and clarity, seem to have been forgotten in the 21st century. In the ...

This is a sentence commonly found on the internet, and it’s unlikely anyone would object to it as strange. “Representative ...

Some books about Greco-Roman antiquity feel like literary versions of the guided bus tours of Athens and Rome that groan eternally down the narrow streets, making dutiful and rapid stops at famous ...

Monument to Fyodor Dostoevsky near the Russian State Library in Moscow. Contributing Columnist Patrick B. Whalen writes that backlash against classic literature is misguided. We read to learn.

This program was originally broadcast on February 10, 2015. The stunning poetry, prose, history and philosophy of classical Indian literature. Emerging in a huge new collection. We’ll dip in. The ...

When comparative literature concentrator and 2019 Rhodes Scholar John Hoffmeyer ’19 began at the University, he was torn between his musical and academic pursuits, especially with his growing ...

Classical World (ISSN 0009-8418) is the quarterly journal of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, published on a seasonal schedule with Fall (September-November), Winter ...

Ava Morris keeps a sizable collection of classical literature at her Post Falls home – with Shakespeare, Dante, Austen and T.S. Eliot among her favorite authors. Graduating June 13 from the Oaks ...

Caprock Academy, an academically accelerated charter school in Grand Junction, Colo., has the generous policy of giving every student in literature classes new copies of every text studied. (In ...