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, ...

“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 early July 1819, John Keats sat down to write the first of his nearly 40 impassioned and now celebrated letters to Fanny ...

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 actor, who stars in the new Broadway production “Giant,” about Dahl’s fraught legacy, discusses whether we can separate the art from the artist. The “Round House” and “Python’s Kiss” author ...

Marianne Faithfull, the London-born singer with an inimitable voice, has passed away at the age of 78. She was known for many things: she was a pop star, an actress and a muse. But she was probably ...

In the spotlight will be John Keats, whose statue resides in East Street; Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was born in Sussex; and Lord Byron whose connection with the county involved a narrow escape from ...