“What is poetry? Why, sir,” roared Dr. Johnson to his ever-attentive Boswell, “we all know what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is . . . It is much easier to say what it is not.” Poetry ...
Pakistan is often described as a poetic nation, and not without reason. Urdu poetry circulates with ease across class, region, and generation. Verses are memorised, quoted, sung, reposted, and ...
IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...
The second edition of the series Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2021 reached the readers in June of 2022. Edited by the founding editors of the series Sukrita Paul Kumar and Vinita Agarwal, the ...
Another international milestone was crossed recently by Indian poetry for English. An English publisher has chosen to publish, and make available for distribution in and outside India, an annual ...
BETWEEN the language of literature and the language of common life there must be, whether in a living tongue or a dead one, differences growing out of the nature of literature. The very making of ...
Voices Israel aims to provide an outlet for contemporary Israeli poets writing in English in Israel and overseas, as well as to encourage new poets and foster international friendships through poetry ...
``Gasa'' (Kasa), a form of poetry popular during the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910), has long been consigned to oblivion for modern Koreans who learn it only in their high school days. But the traditional ...
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