British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy wrote “Achilles” after English soccer player David Beckham suffered a season-ending injury last week. Beckham, 34, was headed for what would have likely ...

Now, poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has penned a poem with the perhaps unusual inspiration of David Beckham's Achilles injury. The work is entitled Achilles and mixes references to the ancient ...

As an epic poem about the Trojan War ... the epic action has been driving is the ferocious duel between the Greek Achilles and the Trojan Hector. Despite their very different personalities ...

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