A CELEBRATION of old English is to be held with readings of the old tongue at a County Durham church. Jack Drum Arts are to hold an evening of poetry and readings taken from old English at Escomb ...

There are four original manuscripts containing poetry in Old English—the now-defunct language of the medieval Anglo-Saxons—that have survived to the present day. No more, no less. They are: the ...

This is the eighth column in a monthly series by Dave Lucas, the Poet Laureate of the State of Ohio. You can read his previous columns here. Relax. This is not a column about iambic pentameter. This ...

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation V.M. Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative. They ...

*Originally published on March 15, 2021. It was cold. It was freezing. The old man was — probably — sneezing. But we don't know about the final detail. Sneezes are not specified. Or about the old man ...

Students in my history of England class this week are getting their first dose of early English poetry, a brief immersion into their cultural history that, at worst, will do them no harm. Their ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what studying the ...

That man made me live among these roots under this oak in this earth-cave. Old is this earth-hall, and I am all aching. Here are dim-lit dens, with dunes heaped up, bitter boroughs beset with briars, ...