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A new opening update has been given for a luxury hotel inside a historic Cotswolds manor. Hyll Hotel will be housed inside a Grade II listed manor house in Charingworth, near Chipping Campden. The ...

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Honored for her poetry and her fiction, Ms. Howe "was truly one of the great poets of Boston and Cambridge," said poet and professor Peter Gizzi.

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Irony is not a creation of modern times, though it has evolved with them. Classical poets like Jonathan Swift and T.S. Eliot used irony as a powerful instrument. Swift’s infamous satire, A Modest ...

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