As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

2 Written some time around 1160, König Rother is the oldest example in German of the secular epic, the first long narrative poem in the vernacular to have come down to us which seeks, not to instruct ...

The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from Babylon. Form is the physical structure or pattern of a poem. The main forms of poetry are open form and closed form. In closed ...

Tam O'Shanter Robert Burns’ most famous narrative poem, this mock-heroic epic details the ghostly adventures of the loveable drunkard Tam and reflects on some of the folk beliefs current in ...