Essays

By Con Chapman It has been a little more than eight years since poet Rachel Wetzsteon committed suicide at the...

by Lew Icarus Bede "A sonnet is a coin: its face reveals The soul—its converse, to what Power 'tis due:...

. by David Bellemare Gosselin Today, seldom is Edgar Allan Poe's voice heard as it's drowned out by the popular...

By Carter Davis Johnson In a period where American literature was considered peripheral and amateur, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) helped create...

By Brett Forester Writing but one fine, enduring poem is a remarkable achievement. Writing a book of great poems is...

By Evan Mantyk Advertising for it is everywhere. If you haven’t seen it, you just haven’t been paying attention. A...

By James A. Tweedie These days, William Cowper (November 26, 1731 - April 25, 1800) isn’t likely to be found...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born February 27, 1807 - died March 24, 1882) was an American poet of the Romantic period. He...

by Annabelle Fuller John Keats (born October 31, 1795 - died February 23, 1821) began life as the son of...

By Sam Gilliland The Poisoned Chalice Let he who lips me then beware, My potion’s more than honeyed mead, One...

By Con Chapman Boston may no longer be the Hub of the Universe, but its Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area remains...

Any treatise claiming critical review of verse, whether in the widest sense, or, as in this case, the result of...

The poetry of Fray Angelico Chavez can be read here. By Joseph Charles MacKenzie Fray Angélico Chávez, O.F.M. (1910-1996) remains...

by Dusty Grein The Man The American poet Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, CA....

John Milton (Born December 9, 1608 – died November 8, 1674) was an English poet of the late Renaissance period. He...

By David Gosselin The answer to the above question is of course no. Shakespeare and Dante are not dead because...

An Introduction to Poetry and Its Place in an Integral Human Formation Introduction  It is well known to most sensible educators...

by Jane Blanchard Beatrice, Dante Alighieri’s second guide in La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), makes her literary debut in...

Click here to download the entire book as a pdf file. By Leonard Dabydeen In the fraternity of poetic minds we...

By Joseph Charles MacKenzie, for the Society of Classical Poets Born in 1939 Samuel Gilliland attended the ancient Dreghorn School...

By James Sale Donald Mace Williams Wolfe and Other Poems is an extraordinarily good collection of poems, clearly written by a...

Poetry, as we have discussed in earlier parts of this article series, depends upon the Muses and accessing the deeper...

By Joshua Philipp Abbie Farwell Brown described the far north in his 1902 book, "In The Days of Giants," as...

This essay was written in 2007 and has remained unpublished until now. by Ludiew E. Sarceb Few of the contemporary...

It has long been observed that whilst the ego is useful in making daily and ordinary decisions in our life,...

By Joshua Philipp The poetry of John Keats is known for its light and dreamy nature. Even in his time,...

The Muses we understand from Part 1 of this article are the daughters of the future and the past, and...

By Joshua Philipp The Italian poet Dante Alighieri is best known for his journey into hell, purgatory, and heaven which...

By Sandeep Kumar Mishra There are two things that came to my mind when I read the book Hare Krishna...

By Joseph Charles MacKenzie James Sale, whom I happen to consider England’s best on the subject, states: “To write poetry...

We live in a post-modernist world and its values are everywhere around us; and everywhere these values are almost largely...

By Joshua Philipp The Japanese creation story begins in a time of primordial chaos, and from this the god Izanagi...

By Evan Mantyk A veritable Renaissance woman, Sally Cook is both an accomplished poet who's regularly published in National Review and an...

By Alex Phuong The night sky has served as the inspiration for many poets and writers, from Longfellow’s “The Light...

By Sandeep Kumar Mishra and Evan Mantyk English poetry has a rich history dating back at least 1,400 years. Looking...

By Evan Mantyk In the sea of free verse, drifting downward into the bottomless whirlpool of aesthetic relativism, it is hard...

By James Sale There are nine Muses of poetry, daughters of Zeus or some say Apollo, and the Titaness, Mnenosyne,...

By Evan Mantyk Last year, the College Board released a significantly redesigned Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The SAT is used by...

By Wilbur Dee Case One of the most unlikely poems of the Modernist period is that by Robert Frost: "The...

By Evan Mantyk One week in mid-January this year, in the relatively obscure world of poetry, Joseph Charles MacKenzie’s “Pibroch for...