Taylor Swift’s lyrics are studied by college students across the country, including at Harvard University, for their literary value. Should they be woven into the high school and middle school English ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) on engraving from 1873. One of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era.

Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati met on a blind date. "We share the same agent," explains Burgess. "She said, 'You need to meet this client of mine.'" Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that they ...

THE science of English verse is still in the formative stage. A large body of poetry — a body which seems in many ways the richest and noblest in the world — has grown up in the English language ...

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 ...

THE odd impersonality of W. H. Auden always gives his poetry, even when he shows the deepest insight into the human heart, an air of strangeness. It was this too which made him seem strange to his ...

MUMBAI: “None of my poems are pleasant.” “We’re Dalits, our poems aren’t meant to comfort.” This was how the conversation flowed at the rehearsal for India’s first ever Dalit Ambedkarite English ...