This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, ...

who does not see a kind of living poetry in these presentations of the wondrous richness of our American life and activity. They are, indeed, the rough eleements of such a real epic as was never ...

Instead, it was something that has long been central to epic poetry: the founding of empires ... epics have played a similar role for the American right. Epics have often shored up empires.

The Odyssey” largely follows the plot of Homer’s original epic, but with increased emphasis on its female characters and the impact of wartime trauma.