The Best Poems of the English Language From Chaucer Through Frost By Harold Bloom HarperCollins ISBN: 0-06-054041-9 Chapter One The Art of Reading Poetry. Poetry essentially is figurative language, ...

THE BEST POEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: From Chaucer Through Frost, . . HarperCollins, $34.95 (972pp) ISBN 978-0-06-054041-8 ...

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to get ...

Michael Hamburger, who produced fine English versions of Celan’s earlier verse, confessed that he found many of the late poems to be untranslatable, not merely because of their polysemy and ...

Where imperfect translations are blamed on our lapses of language, Aaron Coleman sees "creative, productive failures." Allow the poet and literary translator to explain with a few tweet-length poems.

Twitchell said he and Miriah had committed to having a “one parent, one language” household, meaning one parent would speak to the children only in Tlingit while the other speaks in English.

In “How to Be a Good Savage,” Mikeas Sánchez’ poems help preserve her language, Zoque, and allow it to commingle with English and Spanish, in an effort that is both global and deeply local.

Griff Rhys Jones on why poetry is powerful and how it differs from other forms of writing. Suitable for teaching at KS3 and KS4 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 3rd and 4th Level in ...

Twitchell said he and Miriah had committed to having a “one parent, one language” household, meaning one parent would speak to the children only in Tlingit while the other speaks in English.