“The main property of a jester can probably be described as follows: wind in the head. The wind that completely blows away sanity, tears things out of place ...

Young Cuchulainn, one of the main characters of the Irish epic, sails to the hawk spring, which flows very rarely and for a very short time. According to leg...

The poem “Venus and Adonis” brought fame to Shakespeare among the educated public; they say that London beauties kept the book under their pillows, and Oxfor...

An old man and a young man stop at a destroyed house. It turns out that they are father and son, and the house once belonged to the old man’s mother, who cam...

The book by the famous translator and researcher of English poetry is a memoir of his travels around England, to the places of life and work of his favorite ...

The famous English writer Rudyard Kipling is a Nobel Prize laureate in literature, who received it “for his powers of observation, vivid imagination, maturit...

The best poems of the past and present are in the “Golden Series of Poetry” by Arthur Rimbaud, a brilliantly gifted poet, about whom Victor Hugo said: “This ...

William Wordsworth (1770–1850), a major figure of English romanticism, a representative of the “Lake School,” in his twilight years (1843–1850) served as Poe...

“There was a hole in the ground, and in the hole lived a hobbit.” These words were written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on the back of a school exam paper he...

Wallace Stevens is one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century. After graduating from law school in New York, he worked for most of his life in an...

The famous English writer Rudyard Kipling is a Nobel Prize laureate in literature, who received it “for his powers of observation, vivid imagination, maturit...

English folk songs translated by Grigory Kruzhkov with colored engravings based on the drawings of Randolph Caldecott - a classic of children's book illustra...