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 ...

He brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic and his heritage is widely appreciated ... virtually define the forms of mystical lyric and mystical narrative poetry, respectively.

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 ...