Ghazal Culture: Exalted Nomads and Love’s Elusive Gate
Although known as a unique poetic form with roots in Arabia, the ghazal’s history suggests it is also a cultural phenomenon with an...
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By James Sale
- Sep 23, 2019
- 8 min
Poetry and the Muses III
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...
By James Sale
- Jul 29, 2019
- 6 min
Poetry and the Muses Part II
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,...
By James Sale
- Jul 1, 2019
- 7 min
Poetry and the Muses Part 1
Republished with permission from the author We live in a post-modernist world and its values are everywhere around us; and everywhere...
By David B. Gosselin
- Apr 22, 2019
- 12 min
The Power of Metaphor
Contrary to the sundry definitions of metaphor proffered by school teachers and dictionaries, Metaphor is not some mere literary device;...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 17, 2019
- 20 min
Clarity and Obscurity: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Part II -''Concreteness''
In my last essay, I discussed the difference between classical and modernist poetry as a difference of worldviews. Classicism views the...
By Daniel Leach
- Feb 23, 2019
- 34 min
Profile in Poetry: Keats' Great Odes & the Sublime
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...
The Editor
- Feb 10, 2019
- 4 min
In Commemoration of Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Today we commemorate the life of poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar, who passed away on February 9th, 1906. Dunbar was a great American poet who...
By David B. Gosselin
- Nov 19, 2018
- 3 min
Beyond the Lines: Edgar Poe's "El Dorado"
"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...
By David B. Gosselin
- Nov 10, 2018
- 30 min
Profiles in Poetry: Friedrich Schiller
“Trust me, the fountain of youth, it is no fable. It is running Truly and always. Ye ask, where? In poetical art.” - Friedrich Schiller,...
By David B. Gosselin
- Oct 29, 2018
- 32 min
Why John Keats Is Not a Romantic
While most professors and critics place John Keats in the same category of poets as Romantics like Lord Byron, William Wordsworth and...
By David B. Gosselin
- Oct 11, 2018
- 4 min
Beyond the Lines: Lerchengesang
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...
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