How much English can you learn in a minute? Find out with this series of one-minute videos explaining how to use English. In each episode learn which verbs collocate with a particular noun.

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This version of "Caedmon’s Hymn" shows how Old English evolved. It also features early use of a punctuation mark that readers ...

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin. The newly-discovered ...

Last night, after months away from home, / a lapwing piercing the still dark still / with its warnings.” ...

The Canadian poet Karen Solie balances environmental concerns with hope and deadpan wit. By Daisy Fried Even admirers admitted his densely intellectual work could be “punishing.” Still, some ...

Let’s memorize a poem! Not because it’s good for us or because we think we should, but because it’s fun, a mental challenge with a solid aesthetic reward. You can amuse yourself, impress your friends ...