“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 ...

CANON FODDER: The English Romantic poet John Clare (1793-1864) spent the last 27 years of his life in asylums. His work features multiple poetic personas, ranging from the voice of an open field ...

“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 ...

Today marks the 103rd birthday of renowned American poet Edward Estlin Cummings, known to readers across the globe as the ever-romantic E.E. Cummings. While Cummings was widely regarded for his love ...