GCSE pupils taking English literature exams next year will not be required to study poetry, the exams regulator has announced. Ofqual said there was "significant concern" about teachers' ability to ...

While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Despite its brief history, Pakistani poetry in English has remained a practice in constant flux. Throughout the years, it has evolved to embrace within it a range of distinctive voices, experiences, ...

Find your added subjects in My Bitesize. Poet Testament is joined by special guests to compare poems, and give top tips for writing about poetry in your exam. A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol by ...

New back-to-basics GCSE specifications include more poetry in English literature, a greater focus on spelling and punctuation in language courses and a requirement to learn formulae "off by heart" in ...

IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...

Pakistan and its people have inherited rich cultural heritage of poetry from the pre-partition era. This heritage included great names in Urdu and Persian poetry, like Mirza Ghalib, Momim, Dard, Mir ...