In this lesson, high school students write ‘I am’ poems in their home language and then translate them into English, building ...

“What is poetry? Why, sir,” roared Dr. Johnson to his ever-attentive Boswell, “we all know what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is . . . It is much easier to say what it is not.” Poetry ...

Editors Sukrita Paul Kumar (left) and Vinita Agrawal. “…This year, one of the distinctive features in the selected poems turns out to be that of many poets unravelling their connection with their ...

Another international milestone was crossed recently by Indian poetry for English. An English publisher has chosen to publish, and make available for distribution in and outside India, an annual ...

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.

IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...

In 1993, a poetry anthology appeared that seemed to speak directly to the spirit of the times and, in so doing, appeal to an audience far larger than what poetry in English could generally boast. More ...

MY first words must be an apology for the title of this paper. It may seem a rather arrogant theme for a professor of Greek to lay before modern readers. But the truth is that I do not for a moment ...

Pakistan is often described as a poetic nation, and not without reason. Urdu poetry circulates with ease across class, region, and generation. Verses are memorised, quoted, sung, reposted, and ...