English poetry information

article focuses on poetry from the UK written in the English language. The article does not cover poetry from other countries where the English language is spoken...

Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades...

Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian...

Poetry (a term derived from the Greek word poiesis, "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities...

Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists. Like other modernists, Imagist poets wrote...

anthologies of Indian English Poetry. Indian English Poetry is one of the oldest forms of Indian English Literature. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded...

earliest attested example of Old English poetry. It is also one of the earliest recorded examples of sustained poetry in a Germanic language. The poem...

one of the most splendid ages of English literature. In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with new forms like the sonnet...

In poetry, a couplet is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (closed)...

Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. It is not equivalent...

The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (sometimes known as Reliques of Ancient Poetry or simply Percy's Reliques) is a collection of ballads and popular...

also certain metrical characteristics. The Old English epic Beowulf, as well as most other Old English poetry, the Old High German Muspilli, the Old Saxon...

No 19 - Winter 2001 The Lune: The English Language Haiku by Holly Bliss at GoArticles.com Lipson, Greta B. Poetry Writing Handbook: Definitions, Examples...

Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French vers libre form. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme...

anthologies became an important part of poetry publishing for a number of reasons. For English poetry, the Georgian poetry series was trend-setting; it showed...

The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century (1774-1781) by Thomas Warton was a pioneering...

Twentieth-Century Indian Poets (New Poetry in India). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1976. Prem, PCK. English Poetry in India: A Comprehensive Survey...

Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. In English literature, Augustan poetry is a branch of Augustan literature, and refers to the poetry of the 18th century, specifically...

the largest surviving collection of Old English literature). The Wanderer most clearly exemplifies Ubi sunt poetry in its use of the erotema (the rhetorical...

In Old English poetry, many descriptive epithets for God were used to satisfy alliterative requirements. These epithets include: Name of God in Christianity...

of verse. In classical poetry, these patterns are quantitative based on the different lengths of each syllable. In English poetry, they are based on the...

Georgian Poetry is a series of anthologies showcasing the work of a school of English poetry that established itself during the early years of the reign...

New York Review of Books. His first collection of English poetry, Jejuri, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1977. His Marathi verse collection Bhijki...

in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian poetry in English. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his collection...

caesura arguably more important to the Old English verse than it was to Latin or Greek poetry. In Latin or Greek poetry, the caesura could be suppressed for...

eye-AM-bik pen-TAM-it-ər) is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm, or meter, established...

were later set to music by German composer Carl Orff in 1936. Old English religious poetry includes the poem Christ by Cynewulf and the poem The Dream of...

American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the...

the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be...