Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to poetry and poets and whether they are true or false. POETRY URBAN LEGEND: The famed poet T.S. Eliot came up with the name for Djuna Barnes’ classic novel, Nightwood. Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot is one of the most acclaimed and well [...]

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to poetry and poets and whether they are true or false. POETRY URBAN LEGEND: The first winner of an Olympic Gold medal for Literature went to a poem written by the creator of the modern Olympics. In 1924, Oliver St. John Gogarty [...]

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to poetry and poets and whether they are true or false. POETRY URBAN LEGEND: Oliver St. John Gogarty wrote a poem dedicated to the returning Irish soldiers from the Boer War that contained a hidden, less celebratory, meaning within. Oliver St. John [...]

This is the third in a series of examinations of urban legends related to poetry and poets and whether they are true or false. Today we learn if Thomas Bowdler actually “bowdlerised” a reference to a bull in Longfellow’s “Wreck of the Hesperus” to “gentleman cow,” we marvel at the brashness of Robert Lowell and [...]

Today is “Grab Bag” day here at Entertainment Legends Revealed, where each week we feature a different area of the world of arts and entertainment (that is not featured on the other four days of the week, that is). Each week you will see grab bag legends from one of these following 25 “Grab Bag” [...]