Read The Canterbury Tales

Whitman's "Song of Myself" and the free verse he kept expanding for forty years.

A bored dandy rejects Tatyana and regrets it; Pushkin's novel in verse.

Historic fortress and the Crown Jewels.

Walk the medieval city walls, the Shambles’ overhanging shops and York Minster, the largest Gothic cathedral in northern Europe.

The cathedral where Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170, the destination of Chaucer's pilgrims.

A Norman cathedral and castle on a rock in a loop of the River Wear, the finest Romanesque building in Europe.

Alfred the Great's capital: the longest Gothic nave in Europe and the Round Table hanging in the Great Hall.

Walk the complete Roman and medieval walls and the two-tier Tudor shopping galleries of the Rows.