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.

Long before pens met parchment in monasteries, an illiterate herdsman named Caedmon changed the course of English literature. Inspired by a divine dream, he composed the first known Christian hymn in ...

Love poems didn’t start as private confessions. For much of their history, they were closer to public performances—tools for politics, status, ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

Students develop skills in critical thinking, rhetorical analysis, writing, literary theory, and models of literary interpretation relevant to fields such as philosophy, history, and anthropology.

Kolkata has made its name on the map of English poetry writing in India,” says poet, translator and nonfiction essayist ...