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Jacob-Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
Pierre Anctil and Vivian Felsen
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Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish...
Poet's Tale: Chaucer and the Year That Made the Canterbury Tales
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As the year 1386 began, Geoffrey Chaucer was a middle-aged bureaucrat and sometime poet, living in...
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
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The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was...