Essays

by Evan Mantyk WHAT DOES THE classic Chinese story Journey to the West have to do with William Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet? A...

By Evan Mantyk From The Iliad, Beowulf, and Shakespearean literature in the West to the Chinese Classic of Poetry, the...

By Jane Blanchard On December 5, 1830, Christina Rossetti was born in London to an Italian-English mother married to an...

A Quick Haiku Guide  A traditional haiku should... 1. Be three lines. The first line should have five syllables, the...

by Conrad Geller People are always asking "What are the best love poems?" or "Where can I find something beautiful...

By Evan Mantyk Michael Curtis A classical architect, sculptor, painter, and poet, Michael Curtis is, in no uncertain terms, a...

By Conrad Geller Poets demonstrably know nothing about death since it is, in Hamlet’s phrase, “the undiscovered country from whose...

By James Sale This is a curious collection from Douglas Thornton: ambitious, epic in its style, containing many great lines...

By Sharon Kilarski | Originally Published in The Epoch Times A sonnet by Betsy Hughes offers unmistakable relief; you can...

By Douglas Thornton "And lo I lie between the sun and thee" (Venus and Adonis; line 194) To see the...

By James Sale In our egalitarian and democratic societies we very much hope and want all good things to be...

By James Sale Poetry is a delicate balance of language that is prone to either too much yin or too...

By Wilbur Dee Case | Edited by Kent Van May Now I can see why T.S. Eliot disliked Edgar Allan Poe's...

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By Damian Robin Quick, pick a good book of poems and let your soul soar. Or clip in your ear...

By Dusty Grein and Evan Mantyk “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the English language’s most popular...

By Kristina Pentchoukova Right from the first email from William Ruleman, I knew that I was interacting with a classicist...

By James Sale There are two things I don’t like about “When We Were Slugs”, the new poetry collection from...

by Reid McGrath I forewarn you that these are the 10 greatest English Sonnets addressed to or concerning other poets...

By Dusty Grein Most of us enjoy poetry in one form or another. I am going to attempt to lay...

By James Sale Frederick Glaysher claims to be an epic poet, and furthermore to have written an epic poem, The...

Updated: April 26, 2024 10 Greatest Poems Ever Written An Ambitious "Best Poems" List Limited to Poems Originally Written in...

Updated January 9, 2020 A Quick Sonnet Guide.  A traditional sonnet should have... 14 lines. X Rhyming. The most common...

Review By James Sale This weekend two different things coincided. First, I finished reading ‘Poetry Is: Jose Garcia Villa’s Philosophy...

Poetry, arguably the most powerful form of communication ever devised by mankind, has died. It was thousands of years old....

When you are 62 years old things may begin to be clearer; you begin realise to the full extent what...

There are a number of reasons for writing poetry, and alas they are not all good; for not all poetry...

Imagine that you were lost in a wilderness and had to find your way out. Fortunately, you have with you...

“He strove to resuscitate the dead art/Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime"/In the old sense. Wrong from the start  …”...

Verse Forms as Evokers of Poetry I wish to dispute the notion that a “poem” arrives in the formal poet’s...

Review By Christopher Nield / Image by Liza Voronin/The Epoch Times The Riddles of Merlin As I was walking Alone...

Poetry should be metered, because metered poetry is, quite simply, better than free verse.  This is for the same reason...

  By Kara Lysandra Ross I was in Epcot Center in Disney World last year, and in the Innovations Center...

. Writing Poetry with Meter---Beginners' Level and Beyond by Evan Mantyk There is very little difficulty behind writing classical poetry...