The Middle English poem Erkenwald, believed to be contemporaneous with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (and possibly by the same author, with connections noted to Hawkstone), survives in a single ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

The English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools. EJ presents information on the teaching of writing and reading, ...

Coming from a choral background, composer Daniel Hart was well prepared to score The Green Knight, but the real challenge was creating an ancient sound. With a basis in ancient England during the time ...

A rare excitement ran through the The New Yorker’s copy department last week when it was discovered that a line of Middle English poetry quoted in a piece by Peter Hessler about standing in police ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what studying the ...

Kashiprasad Ghosh (1820s) to Basudhara Roy (2020s), Indian English poetry has walked a long glorious way; from uncertainty to confidence. We open Roy’s A Blur of a Woman and see contemporary poetry at ...