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 ...

"The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance." - Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley did not write this line as an excuse to stop learning. The English Romantic poet wrote it as ...

Andrew Klavan is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, and City Journal contributing editor. Associate editor Daniel Kennelly spoke with him about his latest book, The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives ...

An essay discussing the paradigm of The Greater Romantic Lyric of MH Abrams, scholar of literature of the Romantic Tradition, Cornell Professor, prolific editor of The Norton Anthology of English ...

Christopher Stokes on how the Romantic poets propelled a new view of personal devotion. The language of prayer and the language of poetry share strong similarities. Prayer, like poetry, allows for, ...

The three poets have certain surface characteristics in common. They have communistic, or near communistic, beliefs, they have studied the same poetic masters, they are difficult to understand. Day ...