According to one scholar, it has been called the “greatest Christian poem written in English.” That’s a debatable call but a position that one would well argue. It is certainly one of the oldest poems ...

Students in my history of England class this week are getting their first dose of early English poetry, a brief immersion into their cultural history that, at worst, will do them no harm. Their ...

A strange little show, The Dream of the Rood is more a staged reading of the medieval poem by that name than a real theater piece. "The Dream of the Rood" is an eighth-century (or conceivably even ...