During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

It is useful to think of the literature of Ancient Greece in three phases. It begins with Homer and Hesiod, masters of the “epic” poem, and ends with the dramatists and the prose of the philosophers ...

Gorman shared her new poem on Instagram. Amanda Gorman is ringing in the new year with a new poem. The National Youth Poet Laureate, who is most famous for her poem "The Hill We Climb," which she ...

The icon known as Sappho was an ancient Greek powerhouse, well-known and well-loved for her lyric poems during the seventh ...

The poet Andrew Weatherhead once tweeted, “The best way to read a poem is to pretend each line is the name of a horse; so the poem is just a list of horses.” This joke says something serious about ...

Poet Amanda Gorman has released a new work, just in time for the year's end. And like her most famous poem, "The Hill We Climb," her latest aims to uplift its listeners during a challenging time.