Poetry isn’t only found in old books, it’s also broadcasted on the radio. A course offered by the Ohio State Department of English looks at alternative rock lyrics as poetry. Alternative Rock Lyrics ...

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 ...

“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 ...

ST. CLOUD — A group of writers gathered in a room at the Great River Regional Library Thursday evening, sipping cups of Somali tea and enjoying slices of pie as they perused poetry displayed in little ...

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, ...

Dr. Asif is a well-known teacher, trainer, and literati. His domain of specialization is English literature. He has a fairly long experience of teaching literature at post-graduate level (BS, MPhil, ...

World English Poetry is an excellent anthology of poetry containing both emerging and well established writers from all parts of the world: The Caribbean, South Asia, the United States, the UK and ...

If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

This fall it may not be raining poetry but new shoots and sprouts are hard to ignore. Be it Rhapsody Roads of Ravi Shankar Etteth or Mukul Kumar’s Catharsis or Amy Singh’s Singing Over Bones: Poems of ...