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 ...

'You look as though you wished the place in Hell,' My friend said, 'judging from your face.' 'Oh well, I suppose it's not the place's fault,' I said.

Every day during July, English professor Joe Heithaus will write a poem for The 30/30 Project, an undertaking by Tupelo Press. Each poem, starting with his inaugural endeavor, “Questions on the First ...