An icon of his time, Lord Byron (aka George Gordon) is one of the best-known English poets of the early 19th-century Romantic Movement. He’s just as famous for his countless affairs with men and ...

Poetry remains timeless and continues to inspire songwriters. Here are five more songs prompted by the work of famous 19th and 20th-century poets. In the poem, the factory worker assumes all of ...

In these interview excerpts from scholars, explore Whitman's calling as a poet, and the idea of a national ... to use the terminology of the 19th century, was friendless, an orphan in the artistic ...

Born in 1821 and dying too young in 1867, Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion. Brown especially lets us see ...

The impact of these legendary Romantic poets on Niemen did not end with their words, but extended also to his artistic persona. The Romanticism of the 19th century was characterised by a revolutionary ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

The most famous person in this family was 19th-century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who grew up in the home. Along with its esteemed namesake, the home is also important to Portland and U.S ...