The gift of verse may carry extra cachet this Valentine’s Day, on the heels of Taylor Swift’s announcement that her next album is poetry-themed ... and the now-deceased Laura. The short poem mixes his ...

This is one of Poe’s most well-rounded poems ... but after her death, she seemingly comes back to life and, in a moment of horror, transforms into Ligeia. This short story is a good read ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She ...

For Stephanie, this debut is more than a milestone; it symbolizes her journey of self-discovery toward following her calling ...

The Romantic period started ... The characters and ideas are given short signature melodies called leitmotifs. Wagner's ideas dominated most music, from the large-scale symphonies of Bruckner and ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her ...

When accepting her 13th Grammy at the 66th award ceremony ... You can read one of his famous romantic poems here. Another Lord and Cambridge undergrad, you might know Tennyson for his patriotic ...

The Hong Kong writer’s penchant for transforming taboo subjects—death, illness, or gender—into fodder for intellectual ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Lyndsay Rush, the poet behind @maryoliversdrunkcousin on Instagram, on how she went from not liking poetry to publishing her debut book of poems, A BIT MUCH.

The Opening of the Wells is one of Bohuslav Martinů's most famous compositions. Not many people know that they can visit the ...