His exposure to Western poets helped shape his modernist style. The era marked the start of the poet's legendary status, as the national crisis was deepening in the 1930s. The Beast, a poem ...

Cover for the book, Mu Dan: Xinsheng De Yeli (The Wild Power of New Birth), by Zou Hanming. [Photo provided to China Daily] Mu Dan was one of China's leading 20th century poets and translators.

These lyrics mark Frost as a severe and unaccommodating writer: they are ironic, troubled and ambiguous in many of the ways modernist poems are. Despite a lamentable gift for public impersonations ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most celebrated Japanese modern poets who pushed the boundaries of the genre, died on Nov. 13. He was 92. While his poems have been translated into many foreign ...

What struck me when I first met Ramakanta Rath at Ravindra Mandap in Bhubaneswar during the release of my first Odia short ...

S. Eliot poem “The Waste Land” that may evoke the Book of Genesis. It certainly captures the message of Ash Wednesday. Published in 1922, Eliot’s modernist poem laments the spiritual poverty ...

and the influence of the Catholic Church over Irish politics and society are just a some of the major modern Irish problems and barriers to progress highlighted and the poem does nothing to gloss ...