Poetry written in English is uniquely powerful and suggestive in its capacity to surprise, unsettle, shock, console, and move. The Cambridge History of English Poetry offers sparklingly fresh and ...

Poetry, like music, can be very rhythmical ... This short film will be relevant for teaching English at primary school.

And in this series, I'm going to give you loads of tips to help you write about poetry in your GCSE English Literature exam. This episode is all about how to use quotes because this is so ...

including the major poets Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Su Shi and Lu You as well as the great prose stylists Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and Quyang Xiu.

He believed that literary traditions mattered and regarded poetic form as something embedded in historical moments and places. His poetry, as this volume demonstrates, engaged richly and ...

Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here. And, so began a tradition of burials and memorials ...

OSLO—A hibakusha who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is traveling to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize festivities here with a book of English poetry and writings about her experience.

Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most celebrated Japanese modern poets who pushed the boundaries of the genre, died on Nov. 13. He was 92. While his poems have been translated into many foreign ...

The researchers used five poems each from ten English-language poets, spanning nearly 700 years of literature in English. The writers included Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Samuel Butler ...