CANON FODDER: The English Romantic poet John Clare (1793-1864) spent the last 27 years of his life in asylums. His work features multiple poetic personas, ranging from the voice of an open field ...

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty." This haunting line from Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats is just one of many memorable quotations from the beloved lyric poet — from "A thing of beauty is a joy ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry transcends time, offering readers a glimpse into the depth of human emotions ...

MORRISTOWN — It was an impressive find, the kind that could titillate the curator and casual observer alike. Amid hundreds of thousands of documents donated to the National Historical Park in ...

Romanticism was a wave of literary expression that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Characterized by its emphasis on emotional and spiritual values as well as its deep ...

No writer has had as much ink spilled in the interpretation of his works only to remain so woefully undervalued in the popular imagination as Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Despite co-creating English ...

THE general reader, as well as the student and historian of literature, may well be cheered to find a book which is entrancing because rather than in spite of its length, footnotes, bibliography, and ...

In this course, participants will read, analyze, and discuss much of the poetry— lyric and narrative— and some of the prose of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, ...

It's ingrained in us from the first cartoon we see, the first picture book we read, the first fairy tale we learn by heart: poetry is the language of romance. And while today's romance novels are ...