Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. It also happens to be National Poetry Month. Many schoolchildren will be admonished to pay attention to poetry these next few weeks - read, analyze, ...

Our perhaps forgivable tendency to group the Romantic tribe of early 19th-century poets under a single collective title is a disservice both to history and to literature. Byron opened his Don Juan ...

After an effusive introduction from Chicago cultural czar Lois Weisberg, Billy Collins stepped lightly onto the stage in the Rubloff Auditorium of the Chicago Historical Society. He stood for a moment ...

The very name Samuel Taylor Coleridge seems to reverberate like some mysterious timpani. Those magical titles of his vibrate and echo over an infinite distance: Kubla Khan, The Ancient Mariner, ...

In his poem, “Introduction to Poetry,” Billy Collins writes that he asks readers to hold his work “up to the light/like a color slide.” Instead, too often, “all they want to do/is tie the poem to a ...

Victorian Poetry examines the poetry of the Victorian Period (1830-1914) from a broad range of theoretical/critical angles, including but not confined to new historicism, feminism, and social/cultural ...