One of the most famous poems ever written and arguably the most significant 20th-century work of poetry, “The Wasteland” is T.S. Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece. It’s one of the longer poems on ...

One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a huge upsurge in art and literature in the Black American community in the early 20th century.

A true renaissance man, Jerzy Ficowski was a writer, poet, translator, scholar with a specialty in gypsy culture, expert on artists Bruno Schulz, Bolesław Leśmian and Witold Wojtkiewicz, composer of ...

And such are precisely the poles of Polish contemporary poetry in the last two decades of the 20th century. One of them is thus lyrical poetry involved in social and political affairs and in "fight", ...

The book details the horrors of the 20th century and took 14 years of reflection, and of witness, to compose. Flowers from the Volcano, published in 1983, is a meticulous and inspired translation of ...

But clues can be found in the figure of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet who, in the early 20th century, founded the Futurist movement and later contributed to the founding of fascism.

Celan was a Romanian German Holocaust survivor, one of the most original and untranslatable 20th-century poets, whose verse stretches, twists and presses the German language to its richest depths ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] Mu Dan was one of China's leading 20th century poets and translators. Born Zha Liangzheng, he was hailed as the country's "first modern poet" by many experts of ...