David Hockney, In Memoriam Cecchino Bracci In 1544, a handsome 15-year-old boy named Cecchino (Francesco) Bracci died, leaving his uncle Luigi del Riccio shattered. At the time Luigi was a close frien...
Boris Pasternak - It Is Not Seemly to Be Famous reads as an artist's manifesto of the importance of inner growth over the public fame...
Jack, the first Black Boy in Wales The poem below is part of Blake’s cycle of poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, shewing the two contrary states of the human soul. To judge by an artic...
R. Burns, A Sonnet upon Sonnets (courtesy of NBC). Today is a wonderful day in my life, all about translations. I have received a permission to publish my translation of a 20th c. poet’s work fr...