'There's no other poem like it': Why this Robert Burns classic is a masterpiece

On Burns Night this Sunday – and 235 years after Tam O'Shanter was published in 1791 – Scots everywhere may well be treated to a masterwork with a unique, universal appeal.
Smithsonian Magazine

These 17th-Century Poems Painted Pictures on the Page—and Defied the Church of England’s Rejection of Religious Images

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.

Daffodils and inheritance of English

Explore the enduring significance of Wordsworth's "Daffodils" in Indian education and its implications on colonial ...
PBS

Weekly Poem: Peter Cole writes about why we read poetry

Peter Cole thinks of all poetry as translation. “Writing one’s own poetry, you’re translating a nonverbal experience or a less than articulate experience into something much more articulate,” he told ...