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...

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

The answer to the above question is of course no. Shakespeare is not dead because every true poet is immortal. However, many contemporary...