Variously described as ‘wearing a cloak of silver’ and looking like ‘a hoary old man’, Jack Frost has attracted many artistic depictions over the centuries — some more positive than others.
When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought ...
I first encountered Nikki Giovanni, who died on Monday at the age of 81, in the pages of the 1973 edition of the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. It was the ...
Join Thomas the Tank Engine and all his friends on loads of adventures in this fortnightly Thomas & Friends magazine. There are loads of things to make and do, with puzzles, drawing and colouring, and ...
The building where the Victorian novelist and poet Thomas Hardy worked as an apprentice architect has been gutted by fire. About 50 firefighters tackled the blaze as it tore through the historic ...