AMES SHAPIRO, a Columbia University professor who is a William Shakespeare expert, on the finding of a variation of “Sonnet 116” that may have been in support of royalists trying to maintain England’s ...

Sitting in a secluded, leafy courtyard on a warm afternoon is a pleasant way to spend an hour, more so sipping on a ...

The 17th-century epic gave the modern age its most famous vision of Eden but, argues the author of a new book, the poem’s influence on landscape and garden design can still be seen today ...