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 ...

There’s nothing more inspiring or touching than a romantic wedding. Like seriously, aren’t weddings just great? Everyone is wearing a fancy suit or dress, there’s cake and dancing, and the bride and ...

Many of us are first introduced to the wonder of poetry through romantic poetry. Whether it comes in the form of bold self-love lessons taught by Maya Angelou, proud, wild desire shared by Sandra ...

Poetry is a form of literature that will, without doubt, outlive us all. Simplistic yet beautiful, poetry is a fun and creative way to express how we’re feeling or how we wish we felt. Sometimes, ...

“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 ...

In one of our favorite recurring segments, we ask our guest to tell us about something they read that changed the way they think about the world. In this episode economist, polymath, and friend-of-the ...

Wanna know my favorite thing about these poems? Hardly any of them even had anything to do with romantic love. People are using Valentine's Day as a time to create romantic "roses are red" poems about ...

Jeb Brown, Jerry Dixon and Emily Swallow will complete the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's forthcoming production of Romantic Poetry, a new musical with book and lyrics by John Patrick Shanley Doubt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...