And the love story is clearly not a main focus of “Iliad,” as Troilus is dead by the time the poem begins. “For me, though, it’s more about everybody’s individual struggle with the monster of war,” ...

Why does "done" rhyme with "fun," for example, and why doesn't "done" rhyme with "gone"? No poem illustrates the counterintuitive nature of the English language better than "The Chaos." ...

“I wanted to, like, write a poem about me getting on a two-wheel bike for the first time when I was six years old. And so ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login A major, thoughtful study, applying new and serious interpretative and critical perspectives to a central range of Old English poetry.' ...

Russom's theory is applied to explain the development of English meters from the earliest alliterative poems in Old and Middle English and the transition to iambic meter in the Modern English period.