I hope the survey has now been wide enough to make the reader willing to believe that the treatment of nature in Old English poetry, in this its first manifestation, is something distinct ...

Until his dad helps him understand that nature is ... these little Emile poems," he says. "A good what they call slant-rhyme, or off-rhyme, I think really speaks to how English can sound.

On the occasion of Earth Day on April 22, here we list down some timeless poetry about the environment and nature. Emily Dickinson's 'A Bird came down the Walk' was first published in 1891.

Wheatley learned English, Greek and Latin ... Some of the poems selected don't immediately seem to be about nature. A poem titled "[#12]," from a collection by Evie Shockley called 31 words ...

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to ...

The Nation recently published a poem in which a homeless narrator speaks a complex, nuanced variety of English with a long and interesting history. The variety of English is Black English ...

I wrote this essay concurrently with doing research for a book on biomimetics. Two poems lived with me constantly during this process and provided epigraphs to most of the chapters. They exemplify ...

In its intimacy, its revelation not just of nature but also of the perceiving self, nature poems offer one of the few paths we have to consider the risks to the natural world in a way that is free ...

The curious hero of this beautiful celebration of spring, “Daniel Finds a Poem,” could be a contemporary version of Peter, the boy in Ezra Jack Keats’s classic “The Snowy Day.” ...

Display the different interpretations around a copy of the poem. This short film will be relevant for teaching English at primary school.