The appreciation of our poetics oscillates between rhetoric and rhapsody. For some great poets, such as Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, it can be safely said that he is about rhapsody alone. But for ...
WHETHER YOU’RE a political junkie or not, we still have months to go until the GOP convention and the presidential election. Thankfully, IJ readers know that nothing cuts through the rhetoric than ...
In his 1589 how-to for aspiring poets and courtiers, George Puttenham describes poetry as “a manner of utterance more eloquent and rhetorical than the ordinary prose.” The most rhetorical of genres, ...
Langston Hughes is now most widely known in the context of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, which draws its title from Hughes’s “Harlem.” The poem asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?
In his 1589 how-to for aspiring poets and courtiers, George Puttenham describes poetry as “a manner of utterance more eloquent and rhetorical than the ordinary prose.” The most rhetorical of genres, ...
In response to a request from Edith Wharton to produce a poem for her 1916 anthology, The Book of the Homeless, WB Yeats took the opportunity to issue a general put down to poets who get involved in ...
"Origins of the Dream" examines the personal and political intersection of two leading African-American public intellectuals of the mid-20th century, Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King Jr. They ...
Secret powers: Editorial on Javed Akhtar's rhetorical question on poetry's relationship with Fascism
Poetry has always been a bit awkward, its relationship with the political leadership often more or less uneasy, depending on the time and place. Upon being awarded an honorary degree by the School of ...
The judges of this year's Poetry Now competition reflect on this year's entries, and find that although Ireland 'is coming down with moans', our literary culture is thriving. The competition's winner ...
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