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 ...

The new John Patrick Shanley-Henry Krieger musical comedy "Romantic Poetry" is neither romantic nor poetic; there's lots of music -- 25 songs, no less -- but the comedy is mostly in the mind of author ...

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 ...

John Clare's poetry praised the simple pleasures of rural life and attacked the encroaching industrial world. In the poem I Am he sets out his feelings of alienation, both mentally and politically, ...

Keats' early death contributed to his iconic image as a tragic genius, but in his brief life he wrote some of the best-loved of all Romantic poetry. Click on the tabs to listen to the next poet. For ...

William Wordsworth, “Preface,” to Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems, 1797–1800, ed. James Butler and Karen Green (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1993), 753. M. H. Abrams, “Structure and Style in the ...

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