William Spiegelman writes that the study of literature in America has moved beyond a pure emphasis on writing to a focus on the “historical, political, economic, and cultural details urged on us by ...

Once upon a midnight dreary, an English professor at Princeton sat in her office, musing over many volumes of forgotten lore about the right way to read a poem. There were handbooks, essays, letters ...

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ALTHOUGH hailed as queen of the arts and hedged about by a kind of divinity, Poetry seems to sit on an always tottering throne. In nearly every age known to human records, some one has chronicled his ...

On a sunny day in late May, some 20 alumnae attending their Reunion resisted the lure of a walk in the nearby botanic garden to instead sink into the trademark purple chairs of The Poetry Center to ...

Princeton University has created the Princeton Prosody Archive, a full-text searchable database of more than 10,000 digitized records on the teaching of poetry between 1750 and 1923. Prosody refers to ...

Too often, students receive the message in their English classes that poetry exists to be analyzed. They learn terms, strategies and complicated acronyms to remember them—all in the service of solving ...

Salome Agbaroji wrote her first poem, a rap, in the second grade, and she’s been crafting rhymes ever since. Now the 18-year-old Harvard student is best known as the nation’s youth poet laureate. “I ...

The Poetry Concentration allows students to pursue work on and about poetry through a variety of experiences and courses. By combining academic and practical work and independent projects, students ...

Humans spend most of their waking hours playing with what novelist Rudyard Kipling called “the most powerful drug used by mankind”—words. In the laboratories of our minds, we sort, slice, and string ...

AT the base of all of Professor Bliss Perry’s discussions in the chapters of his new book entitled A Study of Poetry is the significant idea that there is a certain inherent mystery in art; and any ...