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 ...

In this course, participants will read, analyze, and discuss much of the poetry— lyric and narrative— and some of the prose of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, ...

During a brief, but incredibly productive year at the end of the 18th century, British poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge joined forces to launch a literary revolution: the English ...

We will be exploring the rich and varied poetry of what has come to be called the romantic period. While over the course of the nineteenth century, critics arrived at some consensus about what ...

Bright Star, the latest film by Oscar-winning director Jane Campion, chronicles the intense and tragic love story of British Romantic poet John Keats and 18-year-old Fanny Brawne. In some ways, it was ...

Peter Ackroyd, writer, historian and presenter of The Romantics, explains how Romantic poetry brought about a revolution in ideas in the early 19th century that changed the face of the world today.

J. Robert Barth was a scholar of the British Romantic poets and the former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Barth first came to the University as the Thomas I. Gasson Professor in 1985. As ...

In this course, we will read, analyze, and discuss much of the poetry (lyric and narrative) and a bit of the prose of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy ...

MORRISTOWN — It was an impressive find, the kind that could titillate the curator and casual observer alike. Amid hundreds of thousands of documents donated to the National Historical Park in ...

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, ...