Confusion’s Masterpieces. Theodore Spencer, youthful Harvard instructor and poet (The Paradox in the Circle), is after bigger game than snarks. In Shakespeare and the Nature of Man, written with ...

A banker who became a bard is about to release a mesmerising new book of poetry and images that showcase Kerry at its very best. Paul Byrne, who is living in Killarney, but has strong links to ...

In its message of self-control and prudence as the root of wisdom, it is atypical for Burns, and is arguably inspired by the poet's own self-made image as 'a Bard of rustic song' whose ...

He was chief bard in the courts of at least three kings of Britain, and is associated with the Book of Taliesin, a text from the 10th century containing his poems. The life of Taliesin was ...