An English professor at Hood College won an award for her upcoming poetry collection. Elizabeth Knapp received the 3 Mile Harbor Book Award for her poetry collection “Causa Sui,” which is ...

For contrast, in the English-speaking world, even Pulitzer Prize-winning poets often struggle to fill modest conference halls at poetry readings; an audience of ten thousand would be the stuff of ...

Matthias dela Cruz as she reads her poem "Eldest Daughter" at the English Majors and Minors club open mic. (Valerie Schultz) An open mic poetry event focusing on the complexities of love with the ...

This thinking eventually became the leitmotiv of my book A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (1969), again written with editorial encouragement from Randolph Quirk. My period teaching in the ...

But in one quarter the switch was welcomed. A book based on my thesis was published by Yale University Press in 1954 (The Concessive Relation in Old English Poetry) just whenC.L.Wrenn at Pembroke, ...

Sections are dedicated to 16th- and 17th-century lyrics, emerging from the background of Tudor monstrosity and religious upheaval; poems of the English Civil War; the Restoration; the Age of ...

November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.