The Best Poems of the English Language From Chaucer Through Frost By Harold Bloom HarperCollins ISBN: 0-06-054041-9 Chapter One The Art of Reading Poetry. Poetry essentially is figurative language, ...

The medieval writer made puzzling references to a story called "The Song of Wade," which has been lost to history. Only a few ...

The Nation recently published a poem in which a homeless narrator speaks a complex, nuanced variety of English with a long and interesting history. The variety of English is Black English, and the ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political ...

Henry Israeli’s fourth book of poetry, “Our Age of Anxiety,” was published by Wine Pine Press in September as the winner of the 2019 Wine Pine Poetry Prize. An associate teaching professor in Drexel’s ...

The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a ...

During the three decades that I have taught English at Lehman College, I’ve witnessed some dramatic and turbulent changes. ALSO SEE:Billy Collins’s poem “Forgetfulness” They have included ...

The editors of ‘The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2020-21’ explain the criteria, and offer a sampling of the poems included.

The poet and translator Azam Obid translated the poem into English. According to him, Farhod and Shirin was translated for English-speaking readers based on the prosaic narrative of Gafur Gulam. This ...