That doesn’t cancel out the homoerotic tension in the men’s poems to each other, but it does make classifying their sexuality challenging. And maybe this shouldn’t be the point. If anything, their ...

In ‘My Dark Vanessa’, Kate Elizabeth Russell delves into how a teenager seduced by her middle-aged teacher mistakes abuse for ...

The Romantic poets redefined how we think about topics such as nature, revolution and the imagination - but just how well do you know them? And how romantic were they really? BBC Bitesize ...

Part joke, part poetry, funny roses-are-red poems are classics for a reason: They're a humorous twist on sometimes saccharine love poems, serving up funny words and silly situations. Are they romantic ...

Shakespeare’s culture and society made much more space for the articulation of same-sex desire than we might expect.

We reproduce here a poem that was published today in The Irish Times. It is by the Irish poet, W. B. Yeats, and was finished yesterday. It was written by Mr. Yeats in the light of the ongoing debate ...

On minor characters and human possibility ...

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Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi, for example, is a long narrative romantic poem like The Roman de la Rose of medieval Europe. A marsia is an elegiac poem that grieves over the death ...

the tone poem and descriptive overture were popular as pieces of stand-alone orchestral music that evoked anything from a painting or poem to a feeling of nationalistic fervour. The Romantic era gave ...