Old English poetry and language studies encompass a rich tapestry of literary, linguistic, and cultural analyses that illuminate the origins, composition techniques, and social contexts of early ...

MY first words must be an apology for the title of this paper. It may seem a rather arrogant theme for a professor of Greek to lay before modern readers. But the truth is that I do not for a moment ...

IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.

“What is poetry? Why, sir,” roared Dr. Johnson to his ever-attentive Boswell, “we all know what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is . . . It is much easier to say what it is not.” Poetry ...

An established poet, scholar and educator, Walt Hunter joined Case Western Reserve University this fall as chairperson and associate professor for the Department of English. Timed perfectly to ...

World English Poetry is an excellent anthology of poetry containing both emerging and well established writers from all parts of the world: The Caribbean, South Asia, the United States, the UK and ...

Dr. Asif is a well-known teacher, trainer, and literati. His domain of specialization is English literature. He has a fairly long experience of teaching literature at post-graduate level (BS, MPhil, ...

When the poet claimed his place on the world stage, he took a tiny island with him. Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. For readers’ tributes to loved ...