English poet Alfred Noyes performed at Monticello Seminary in 1925, delighting audiences with classic poetry amidst rainy ...

Why do we humans make and listen to poetry? “The world is charged with the grandeur of God” — everything in it is worthy of our attention. A poet fixes our gaze on some God-created being or experience ...

Old English poetry and language studies encompass a rich tapestry of literary, linguistic, and cultural analyses that illuminate the origins, composition techniques, and social contexts of early ...

When I was approached to write a book review of World English Poetry, an anthology edited by Sudeep Sen and published by Bengal Publications in 2015, I found the prospect of it daunting. How could I ...

Despite its brief history, Pakistani poetry in English has remained a practice in constant flux. Throughout the years, it has evolved to embrace within it a range of distinctive voices, experiences, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...