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Tag: Poem
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Nation & World
Breaking down ‘Beowulf’
Using a statistical approach known as stylometry, which analyzes everything from the poem’s meter to the number of times different combinations of letters show up in the text, a team of researchers found new evidence that “Beowulf” is the work of a single author.
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Nation & World
New chapter for ‘The Odyssey’
Professor Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate the ancient epic “The Odyssey” into English, explains her milestone achievement.
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Nation & World
A poem for Harvard
Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, returns to Harvard to read a poem at Morning Exercises. As Harvard celebrates its 375th anniversary, he will reprise his 1986 “Villanelle for an Anniversary,” composed for the University’s 350th.
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Nation & World
‘Stranger Fruit,’ indeed
Artist Sanford Biggers completes his work “Constellation: Stranger Fruit,” which recalls the horrors of slavery even as it celebrates the stars above.
