His work examined the tensions between his country’s social and economic strata, as well as his roots in postindustrial Leeds ...

Anyone still hoping to appease the PC-diversity loons should look at Yale, where the latest grievance is the dominance of white male poets in the core English intro class, Major English Poets. A ...

Margaret Shultz ’16 felt dissatisfied when she submitted her senior thesis in English this spring. The road to this moment hadn’t been an easy one: She’d begun to question the value of the English ...

AN excursion through eight or ten centuries of verse is an undertaking like the circumnavigation of the globe; the space to be traversed is so great that it takes a life-time to make the way familiar.

The three poets have certain surface characteristics in common. They have communistic, or near communistic, beliefs, they have studied the same poetic masters, they are difficult to understand. Day ...

Yale English majors are demanding a safe space from Chaucer. In a petition to the English Department, Yale undergraduates declare that a required two-semester seminar on Major English Poets is a ...

Edwardsville English teacher Kirk Schlueter joins the likes of fellow poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell with his newest ...

Poetry evenings will give voice to verse in eight languages at the upcoming 44th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF 2025).

With Instagram helping budding poets find audiences and publishers pitching in, a slew of English poets is experiencing ...

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 ...