Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” is one of his shortest works, but also one of his best known, anthologized to the point of ubiquity....

Although known as a unique poetic form with roots in Arabia, the ghazal’s history suggests it is also a cultural phenomenon with an...

Modernism produces obscure poetry because it denies the existence of absolute truth. Without a fundamental truth to reveal, poetry is...

BUT for the cruel aspersions upon the character and life of America’s poetic genius, EDGAR ALLAN POE, this volume would have remained...

It has long been observed that whilst the ego is useful in making daily and ordinary decisions in our life, it is less effective when it...

The Muses we understand from Part 1 of this article are the daughters of the future and the past, and more specifically of memory, light,...

Republished with permission from the author We live in a post-modernist world and its values are everywhere around us; and everywhere...

This article is reprinted with permission from the author St. Augustine, the founder of Western Christian civilization, wrote, of poetry:...

Contrary to the sundry definitions of metaphor proffered by school teachers and dictionaries, Metaphor is not some mere literary device;...

In his essay “A Defence of Poetry,” Shelley described a poem as “the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth.” His sweeping...

In my last essay, I discussed the difference between classical and modernist poetry as a difference of worldviews. Classicism views the...

This article is republished with permission from the author. When John Keats died in Rome on Feb. 23, 1821, at the age of 25, the world...

Today we commemorate the life of poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar, who passed away on February 9th, 1906. Dunbar was a great American poet who...

Classical and modern poetry are inarguably different. Indeed, modernism’s chief boast is its break with classicism and tradition more...

Just as the lily is repeated in the lake, or the eyes of Amaryllis in the mirror, so is the mere oral or written repetition of these...

“Trust me, the fountain of youth, it is no fable. It is running Truly and always. Ye ask, where? In poetical art.” - Friedrich Schiller,...

While most professors and critics place John Keats in the same category of poets as Romantics like Lord Byron, William Wordsworth and...

We are inaugurating a new series, aimed at taking a different poem on each occasion and analyzing it from the standpoint of how a great...

Edgar Allan Poe laid down the principles of poetic composition in several of his essays, notably “The Poetic Principle.” However, he did...

William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 – died April 23, 1616) is arguably the greatest writer in any language. His poetry is not...