Though I read everything from memoirs to romantasy, there is one genre in particular that haunted me for a long time: poetry.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

If I was a University of the West of England drama student, I’d be furious about being treated like such a snowflake,” Free ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two ... She was one of the most famous writers in Denmark, but only became well-known to Anglophone readers when the English translation of her ...

With a little something for young adults, a little something for a more mature audience and lots of inside jokes for ...

Created by the late Joseph Papp in 1962, the Public Theater's series offers free, large-scale productions of works by William Shakespeare (as well as the occasional musical or non-Shakespearean ...

They generally don’t get on well. Another, the product of revisionist scholarship, is a crypto-Catholic, socially conservative Shakespeare. This is the bard whom Clare Asquith makes her subject in ...