Less well known, however, is the fact that half of Shakespeare’s poems were addressed to a young man, an unnamed “Fair Youth.” Depending on which Shakespeare scholar you ask, the gesture is either ...

Such foreshadowing, of course, is never good news in the literary world of romantic poetry, and Bess has to make a brave sacrifice to save her love. Noyes uses clever and vivid imagery to tell the ...

with several poems appearing in the original language alongside its translation. This engaging selection features concise, informative headnotes and a helpful introduction that charts a course to ...

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 ...

Vincent Quinn, Vincent Quinn is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. Focusing on poets such as Thomas Gray and William Cowper, Pre-Romantic Poetry investigates pastoral poetry and ...

love poetry and plays. Some are romance novels entirely: for others, though, love might just be a small part of their stories. Together we think they make a collection of the best romantic quotes ...

Take a musical look at one of the finest ever artistic groups: the Romantic poets. William Wordsworth, John Keats, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and Percy Shelley express themselves with an epic pop ...

If you're stuck on what to write in a Valentine's Day card, you can take inspiration from these 10 romantic poems. I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love, except in this ...