IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...

If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...

Dr. Asif is a well-known teacher, trainer, and literati. His domain of specialization is English literature. He has a fairly long experience of teaching literature at post-graduate level (BS, MPhil, ...

Revise for your GCSE English literature exam by listening to these podcasts from BBC Bitesize and Sounds. Join host Testament plus special guests to compare a range of selected poems, looking at ...

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.

Long before pens met parchment in monasteries, an illiterate herdsman named Caedmon changed the course of English literature. Inspired by a divine dream, he composed the first known Christian hymn in ...