Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page, in ...

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.

There are four original manuscripts containing poetry in Old English—the now-defunct language of the medieval Anglo-Saxons—that have survived to the present day. No more, no less. They are: the ...

This summer’s best film was conceived nearly seven centuries ago. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an epic Middle English poem from the 14th century, written by an unknown author. It follows Sir ...

When things get hard, people turn to poetry. In fact, human beings have been turning to poem-hearing and making for thousands of years, and a lot of poetry — in all lands — witnesses and commemorates ...