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 ...

Romanticism was a wave of literary expression that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Characterized by its emphasis on emotional and spiritual values as well as its deep ...

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.

THE general reader, as well as the student and historian of literature, may well be cheered to find a book which is entrancing because rather than in spite of its length, footnotes, bibliography, and ...

Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

I joined the School of English in September 2010 and I am a senior lecturer in Romantic Literature. My primary research interest is the poetry of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Yeats. I also have ...

"Of genius the only proof is, the act of doing well what is worthy to be done, and what was never done before: Of genius in the fine arts, the only infallible sign is the widening the sphere of human ...

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 ...