George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.
Did you know that English used to be viewed as a language for everyday people? For a long time, scholars preferred to write ...
Why do we humans make and listen to poetry? “The world is charged with the grandeur of God” — everything in it is worthy of our attention. A poet fixes our gaze on some God-created being or experience ...
Arthuriana, Vol. 22, No. 4, Special Issue in Honor of Edward Donald Kennedy (WINTER 2012), pp. 25-45 (21 pages) In this essay, the authors demonstrate that the little-studied Middle English poem ...