When talking about English literature, it is useful to group the authors together according to the time they lived. But sometimes authors...

In this week’s blog we will be going over both the new and the old. Let’s first give age its honor and talk about the epic first. Perhaps...

I have a textbook of Victorian Poetry that I used when I was in school. Can you guess what poet’s work takes up the bulk of the book—more...

There is now about a month before poetry bee! Are you prepared? In poetry we have to learn a lot of fancy-sounding words, like catalexis,...

I am about to go over some things that most of the students participating in the poetry bee have already been exposed to, especially the...

How many of us let life go by! We waste our days, frittering away our time, efforts and resources on useless things. Then, when we...

Our last poetry bee blog was about Coleridge. As I mentioned in that blog, one of Coleridge’s good friends was the poet William...

For a time there were three poets living on the border of Scotland and England in the modern-day county of Cumbria at the beginning of...

You will probably be happy to know that this poetry bee blog is much shorter than the previous one; there will be a lot less information...

The epithet or name “Renaissance Man” is used to describe anyone who shows talent in many disciplines. The word comes from the apparent...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was a highly popular American poet and educator. Born in New Hampshire, he went to Bowdoin...

We are continuing our series on clergymen poets with a poet named Thomas Traherne. Most likely you’ve never heard of him and you might...

Gerard Manley HopkinsLet’s get back on track here. In our past series of poetry bee installments, we have talked about sons of clergymen,...

In our past poetry bee blog, you learned that the Scottish poet James Thomson was the son of a clergyman who had aspirations of becoming...

We are continuing our series of Poetry Bee installments on clergyman poets. In the previous installment you read how James Thomson, the...

We have often heard or even observed sons following in the footsteps of their fathers (and daughters in the footsteps of their mothers)...

I have already introduced to you the word metaphysical in talking about that group of poets who frequently used word play, paradoxes and...

So far we have gone over two clergymen poets in our blogs. I have a couple more pastor/priest poets that I want to talk about, but I...

In this blog you will be learning some hard words to pronounce, but I think they are words that you can all understand. They include...

As was said in the previous Poetry Bee blog, Isaac Watts was an “Independent” or “Dissenting” minister; that means that his ministry was...