focuses on poetry from the United Kingdom written in the English language. The article does not cover poetry from other countries where the English language...

Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades...

Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian...

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings...

Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists. Like other modernists, Imagist poets wrote...

The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century (1774-1781) by Thomas Warton was a pioneering...

of syllables of particular types. The familiar type of metre in English-language poetry is called qualitative metre, with stressed syllables coming at...

earliest attested example of Old English poetry. It is also one of the earliest recorded examples of sustained poetry in a Germanic language. The poem...

In poetry, a couplet or distich is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In...

in English," according to the editors of Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. In his essay "Vorticism," Pound acknowledged that Japanese poetry, especially...

The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (sometimes known as Reliques of Ancient Poetry or simply Percy's Reliques) is a collection of ballads and popular...

anthologies became an important part of poetry publishing for a number of reasons. For English poetry, the Georgian poetry series was trend-setting; it showed...

Poetry as an oral art form likely predates written text. The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering...

New York Review of Books. His first collection of English poetry, Jejuri, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1977. His Marathi verse collection Bhijki...

In Old English poetry, many descriptive epithets for God were used to satisfy alliterative requirements. These epithets include: Name of God in Christianity...

anthologies of Indian English Poetry. Indian English Poetry is one of the oldest forms of Indian English Literature. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded...

one of the most splendid ages of English literature. In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with new forms like the sonnet...

Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term for both...

also certain metrical characteristics. The Old English epic Beowulf, as well as most other Old English poetry, the Old High German Muspilli, the Old Saxon...

examples of English free verse poetry surfaced before the 20th-century (parts of John Milton's Samson Agonistes or the majority of Walt Whitman's poetry, for...

Georgian Poetry is a series of anthologies showcasing the work of a school of English poetry that established itself during the early years of the reign...

verse. In classical poetry, these patterns are quantitative based on the different lengths of each syllable, while in English poetry, they are based on...

fiction is a fusion of prose, poetry, play, essay, and pictures. Indian literature Indian poetry in English List of English poets from India Literature...

Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. In English literature, Augustan poetry is a branch of Augustan literature, and refers to the poetry of the 18th century, specifically...

this respect, the poem displays some of the characteristics of Old English wisdom poetry. The degeneration of “earthly glory” is presented as inevitable...

form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century", and Paul Fussell has estimated that "about three quarters of all English poetry is in blank...

the largest surviving collection of Old English literature. The Wanderer most clearly exemplifies ubi sunt poetry in its use of the erotema (the rhetorical...

eye-AM-bik pen-TAM-it-ər) is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm, or meter, established...

were later set to music by German composer Carl Orff in 1936. Old English religious poetry includes the poem Christ by Cynewulf and the poem The Dream of...

American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the...