The poet who composed the oldest surviving English poem was apparently illiterate, unmusical, and a common cowherd from Whitby, North Yorkshire, in what is now the U.K. And we now have the original ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s ...

From left, Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner from Dublin’s Trinity College and Valentina Longo of Rome’s National Central Library look at a manuscript containing a rare, long-lost copy of ...

Researchers in Ireland marveled at their computer screen as they flipped through the digitized pages of a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library. Within them, they found their sought-after ...