Burns wrote this poem during the winter of 1785-6, which was included in the Kilmarnock edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). It employs the Spenserian Stanza, which was ...

A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios.

They sought ways to represent the Immaculate Conception which would circumscribe rather than define the mystery, and therefore used the language of poetry and art ... and thus love springs forth from ...

Mike Wolanin | The Republic Beth White, of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators, holds Hope the groundhog as she makes her prediction for an early spring or six more weeks of winter during the annual ...

Local poet, writer and educator Michael Seeger pens monthly introspective poem.

I'm writing from the start of another semester. Spring semesters are weird. "Spring" doesn't feel like the right word to describe them -- not when there's over a foot of snow blanketing the campus ...

While we aren’t yet out of the woods, there are some signs of hope beginning to show. Earlier today, Grant Afseth brought Mavs’ fans some very welcome footage of Doncic, sans scooter, ...

Instrumental music and the plastic creative domains have an advantage of sorts over other art forms in that they don’t involve the spoken or written word. Not that there is anything deficient or ...

Every year, my optimism springs to life when I think of my future vegetable garden. I forget the hardships of the last year ...

From the Catbird Seat, hope springs eternal for loyal fans throughout Reds country. There was such excitement surrounding the new season for the Reds. There seems to be a consensus that the time ...

Then there is religious faith, which involves hope in the unseen, such as divine union and eternal happiness. To better understand the nuances of hope, we must consider the concept of "locus of ...