IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...

Researchers in Ireland stared at their computer screen in amazement, examining a medieval book discovered in a Roman library. As they scrolled through its digitized pages, they uncovered their prized ...

Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder A lost copy of a poem composed in the seventh century by a Northumbrian cattle herder – the ...

“The Moon that fell from heaven”—a story first inscribed on clay tablets in the 14th century BCE—begins with a celestial accident: the Moon tumbles to earth and encounters the workings of nature. In a ...

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English novels, poetry and essays are now being published in profusion in Sri Lanka, India, and in other countries. There was a time until about the end of the twentieth century when English books ...