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 ...

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.

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 ...

With wikis, the new Web tool, everybody’s an editor and a critic Forum: Join an online discussion about the pros and cons of teaching with wikis -- Web sites that can be edited by anyone who visits ...

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 ...

Harold Bloom, who died at the age of 89 on Oct. 14, was such a critic. Over a long, distinguished, and varied career, he reinvented himself several times. Starting out as our premiere exponent of ...

Of life's pleasures, To love alone does music defer; Yet love too is a melody. Pushkin's poem in his work Stone Guest is a perfect interpretation of the chamber opera Farewell Again, Cambridge, which ...