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.

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 ...

Romantic poetry—the poetry of Shelley and Keats, in English, of Novalis and Hölderlin, in German—first diagnosed this fracture (the argument goes) and offered a way to heal it.