SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: A cancelled Hollywood project prompted a professor at Cambridge University in England to translate the works of a legendary pre-Islamic Arab poet into modern English.

Dr Erin A McCarthy discusses her multidisciplinary, ERC-funded project about the transmission networks of early modern English poetry. “What does 16th-century poet John Donne have to do with ...

IT may be still an open question for the critics whether thought should be considered as lying within the scope of poetic art, or should be rigorously excluded from its productions ; but in the mean ...

"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", from the Cotton Nero A.x manuscript | "Gawayin Poet", late 14th century/Wikimedia Commons [Licensed under CC BY Public Domain Mark 1.0] In the 13th century, English ...

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THE WORLD’S BODY—John Crowe Ransom—Scribner ($2.75). There is no primer of modern poetry. Readers who are intimidated by its obscurity soon find that most prose explanations tend to become almost as ...

Thomas Russell Whitaker, the Fredrick W. Hilles Professor of English & Theater Studies, Emeritus, scholar of modern poetry and drama, died at Middlesex Hospital in Connecticut on Dec. 24. He was 95 ...

Pakistan and its people have inherited rich cultural heritage of poetry from the pre-partition era. This heritage included great names in Urdu and Persian poetry, like Mirza Ghalib, Momim, Dard, Mir ...