As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved ... Giustinian to his wife, Candiana Garzoni. That doesn’t cancel out the homoerotic tension in the men’s poems to each other, but ...

The artist Justin Vernon discusses his new EP “SABLE,” the dream of a happy adulthood, and his worry that he’s purposely repeating a “cycle of sorrow.” The Texan Doctor and the ...

Dear Dinner Invitation: What’s improper about her going is that she is a married woman and she knows this man is interested ...

This poem has a loaded meaning for several reasons; for one, some sources say that Poe wrote this poem while mourning his brother and grappling with his wife ... are drawn to romantic poetry ...

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 van Gogh, “Self-Portrait” (1889) (image courtesy the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC) Editor’s Note: The following poems have been excerpted with permission and adapted ...

We're looking at language, form, structure, theme and context – some of the things you will need to write about in your exam ... is a war poem and 'The Prelude' is a romantic poem, both of ...

The woman in question was almost certainly Clodia, from an ancient aristocratic family and the wife ... Latin poem as a preface for new editions, enjoining the reader to “celebrate your Catullus.” ...

In a 2019 review of Cambodia, the United Nations called for an end to “social norms that justify gender-based violence”, including the abolition of the Chbap Srey, a poem that is a “root ...