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 ...

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.

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 ...

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty." This haunting line from Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats is just one of many memorable quotations from the beloved lyric poet — from "A thing of beauty is a joy ...

John Keats (1795-1821), English Romantic poet on his deathbed with tuberculosis aged 25, sedated with laudanum and opium. Engraving after portrait by Joseph Severn. From "Old and New London: A ...

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 ...