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 ...

—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 ...

Does contemporary poetry all sound the same to you? Is it a problem with the way poets read it on the radio, with the voice that gives the end of each line an Australian-style non-questioning question ...

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 ...

Every week, poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive. This time he selects ‘Lyrical Ballads’, a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in ...

The title of the book “Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women Two Worlds” suggests a sense of foreboding. But for the two poets in the book, Demetria Martínez and Susan Sherman, those times — in the ...

Now almost 40 years old, rap burst out of the Bronx to become one of the dominant musical and cultural forces in this country. A new book, The Anthology of Rap, tracks the development of the genre -- ...

Style, Vol. 54, No. 1, Special Issue: We-Narratives and We-Discourses across Genres (2020), pp. 48-61 (14 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325/style.54.1.0048 • https ...