Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

THEBE is no brief maxim so incontrovertible as that poeta nascitur, non fit; but we suspect the force of the maxim is weakened by an insistence upon the second member of the phrase. It is the ...

Samuel Levin ("The Analysis of Compression in Poetry," Foundations of Language 7 [1971]), 38-55) has argued that Riffaterre's early "superreader" is an inadequate tool for analyzing the "poetic" ...

Come with us on a Live Lessons virtual school trip to Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire for National Poetry Day 2022! We explore the stunning former home of poet Lord Byron as we come up with poetry ...