During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

In “Night Watch,” Kevin Young riffs on Dante’s “Inferno” and gives voice to silenced figures from the nation’s past.

Lyricism in poetry is like the water poured in at the end of cooking rice,” said Jeong Ho-seung (75), one of Korea’s representative lyric poets. “Just as rice cannot be cooked without water, lyricism ...

The United States is a lyric nation. It has a geography suited to epic, and an expanse suited to epic, but it is organized in ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2012.67.1.1 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncl.2012.67.1.1 Copy URL This essay considers a collection of poems written by ...

German Studies Review, the scholarly journal of the German Studies Association, is published three times each year, in February, May, and October. The journal publishes articles and book reviews in ...

The poet Andrew Weatherhead once tweeted, “The best way to read a poem is to pretend each line is the name of a horse; so the poem is just a list of horses.” This joke says something serious about ...

WE have been so long accustomed to think of Dante chiefly as the poet of The Divine Comedy, and of Shakespeare chiefly as the dramatist of the Plays, that we do not always remember that they are also ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of two essays responding to Calvin Bedient’s “Against Conceptualism.” Read Rachel Galvin’s response here. These models . . . are so concerned with the work being done in the ...