In the literary marketplace, the stock of the Romantic poets is steadily on the rise. The Shelleys, both Percy and, thanks to the feminists, Mary, are blue chips; Byron is holding steady; Keats, after ...

Peter Ackroyd, writer, historian and presenter of The Romantics, explains how Romantic poetry brought about a revolution in ideas in the early 19th century that changed the face of the world today.

We will be exploring the rich and varied poetry of what has come to be called the romantic period. While over the course of the nineteenth century, critics arrived at some consensus about what ...

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 ...

This collaboration between Marianne Faithfull and Warren Ellis reaches back to Faithfull’s long-held desire to create a piece of work that draws on the work of certain English Romantic poets: Byron, ...

Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

Of life's pleasures, To love alone does music defer; Yet love too is a melody. Pushkin's poem in his work Stone Guest is a perfect interpretation of the chamber opera Farewell Again, Cambridge, which ...