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

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 ...

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 ...

ONE envies Mr. Harrison the many months of earnest study which must have gone to the making of his account of Platonism in English Poetry. 1 To walk familiarly, when one is young, with the ideal forms ...

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, ...

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 ...

Did you know that English used to be viewed as a language for everyday people? For a long time, scholars preferred to write in Latin or French. English literature is an incredible collection of ...