Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. This sonnet from English poet John Donne (1571–1631) isn’t a conventional love poem but rather a love poem dedicated to God. On the surface, the narrator ...

Share your love and pride with your daughter by expressing your heartfelt emotions through poetry. Here are a few poems to ...

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

English Literature. The book is estimated to ... almost cheeky 16th-century subversion of the typical love poem. Instead of placing his mistress on a pedestal with over-the-top comparisons ...

Educators are conscious of the value of exposing students to great works of poetry, but the teaching of poetry often lacks a ...

How did Latin erotic elegy influence and shape sixteenth-century English love poetry? Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book offers detailed readings of poetry with close attention to the ...

Included are: "The Owl and the Nightingale," "Poema Morale," "The Proverbs of Alfred," Thomas of Hales’s "Love Rune," "The Eleven Pains of ... and violence, this Middle English poem was nonetheless ...

Revise for your GCSE English literature exam by listening ... now because it's a country in the grip of war. IMTIAZ: I love this poem. Carol Rumens is talking about the country that's been left ...

she shows how conventions of earlier English poetry recombine with new literary conventions after the Norman Conquest. These new conventions—for example, love lyric repurposed as devotional ...

A rake of pints. Sure look, you know yourself. Yer man. The unique joy of Hiberno-English should be celebrated, never taken ...