Poet William Wordsworth's words offer timeless wisdom. He believed inner stillness and profound joy unlock true perception.

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 ...

“Romantic” is one of those words that has traveled so far from its original meaning, and been used in so many different contexts, that by now it seems to mean almost anything. Keats’s Odes and “Roses ...

TOWARD the close of the eighteenth century there appeared in Germany, under the lead of Tieck, Novalis, and the Schlegels, a class of writers and of writings known as the Romantic School. The ...

With wikis, the new Web tool, everybody’s an editor and a critic Forum: Join an online discussion about the pros and cons of teaching with wikis -- Web sites that can be edited by anyone who visits ...

Christopher Stokes on how the Romantic poets propelled a new view of personal devotion. The language of prayer and the language of poetry share strong similarities. Prayer, like poetry, allows for, ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

“Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,/ It’s with O’Leary in the grave.” So wrote WB Yeats in his well-known poem September 1913, as he mournfully reflected on contemporary Irish culture, comparing it ...

“Godlike,” by the seminal punk musician Richard Hell, transposes a notorious affair between nineteenth-century French poets to nineteen-seventies New York. She didn’t remember what she’d said, only ...