Romantic poetry has the power to capture love in its most profound, passionate, and enduring forms. These poems remind us that love is universal, spanning centuries, cultures, and languages.

“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the ...

Meet the original members of the tortured poets department. From William Wordsworth to Emily Dickinson, Taylor Swift’s new album draws from a long legacy of Romantic-era literature.

Books & the Arts / February 26, 2025 Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s naturalistic poetry was ...

This “romantic interest,” de Staël proposed, is what makes literature truly modern, and allows it to speak to a popular audience. The difference between classic and romantic poetry is the ...

Where Romantic Poetry in a Fading Language Draws Stadium Crowds. That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India.

But most books of poetry by leading poets, with scant exceptions, sell fewer than 100 copies. My dorm mate’s book only sold 11 copies before the prize announcement. The days when schoolchildren were ...

An unmissable show at the Met proves romanticism isn’t dead. Sad, beautiful, thwarted, sublime: In quiet evening tones, “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” speaks of a world out of ...

When reading Polish romantic literature, you may be bewildered at how unusual it seems – especially compared to its French, English, and American versions. There may be similar themes and philosophy ...