Excerpt from 'The Best Poems of the English Language' 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 ...

Bloom made his critical reputation with a book called The Anxiety of Influence, where he argued that poetry proceeds on the misreadings by strong poets of their predecessors. In this massive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In “Motherfield,” her first collection to appear in English, Julia Cimafiejeva grapples with questions of language, nationalism and oppression.

A new study finds that people prefer poems written by ChatGPT, a chatbot, over those written by human writers.

Anthony Horowitz introduces the work of Kae Tempest to consider the musical quality of poetry.

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