From the beginning of the 13th century down to the middle of the 17th century, a large body of poetry was written by poets trained in the Bardic Schools as they existed in Ireland and parts of ...

The profession of hereditary bardic poet was among the most distinctive aspects of Gaelic society. In pagan times poets were thought to be gifted with second sight, able in a trance or frenzy to ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This week marks 157 years since Walt Whitman’s poetry first appeared in ...

The singer, who is about to be 70, on bardic poetry, a drugs sting and ‘Mellow Yellow’ sung by kids I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences – what I know from my background is ...

In "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life," Walt Whitman is not the bard most of us know. Here, three American poets -- Frank Bidart, Marie Howe, and Galway Kinnell -- give voice to Whitman's stunning ...

Ireland possesses the oldest vernacular poetry in Europe. Its earliest forms (dating from the sixth century AD) trace the movement from a pagan to a Christian Ireland. The initial reliance on ...

The idea was the brainchild of Arthur Uther Pendragon, known as King Arthur, who hopes to see the "Battle of the Bards" ...

The profession of hereditary bardic poet was among the most distinctive aspects of Gaelic society. In pagan times poets were thought to be gifted with second sight, able in a trance or frenzy to ...