Real life poetry is based on real life, and the real life behind this poem is obviously that of my daughter’s. But her life is also […]
Collections of limericks and poetry celebrating great authors and works of world literature.
The limerick is a relatively simple form of poetry. It has five lines in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme together; and the third […]
It was summer vacation, and my daughter and I were spending a string of lazy days together. Some of it was what you might call homeschooling. […]
The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and the planet’s astonishing response has created a world that is all but unrecognizable. We are all finding ourselves in situations that […]
Literary scholars generally agree that Dostoyevsky was one of the greatest novelists who ever lived. High school students may be skeptical of that assessment. But professors […]
Samuel Johnson first coined the phrase Metaphysical Poetry in around 1780 to describe a very specific group of English poets of the 17th century, chiefly Abraham […]