There are about a million words in the English language, but do you know the longest word in English? You may think it’s ...

Scholars say handwriting errors in a 900-year-old document changes the understanding of "The Song of Wade", a lost English poem.

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A poet said his career skyrocketed within the liberal literary scene by taking on minority personas to promote his work to ...

Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...

Cambridge University experts say the discovery finally solves the most famous mystery in Geoffrey Chaucer's writings.

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Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the final installment and continues her style of lively, lyrical translation.

Published poet and researcher of African American literature Angel Dye will be joining SIUE’s Department of English as an ...

v, 444 p. : 26 cmThe children's book : a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language by Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 ...

In Urdu and Persian, there exist in distinguished profusion both long and short poetic forms. Allama Iqbal's Asrar-i-Khudi (1915) is a well-known example of a long philosophical poem in Persian ...