To them, Hessian peasants were representative of something nobler: they were the conservators of German folklore and the repositories of natural poetry, or Volkspoesie, characterized by purity and ...

Probably no sonnet has ever meant so much to so many people as the one by Emma Lazarus that adorns the Statue of Liberty in ...

Study found sonnets churned out by an algorithm were deemed by participants to have better rhythm and more beauty than authentic ones People prefer AI-generated poetry to Shakespeare because it is ...

Using the broadest brush strokes, Pink Floyd became the UK’s first major psychedelic band thanks to their visionary leader Syd Barrett ... Pioneering British poet Michael Horovitz – who ...

Romantic love poems for her will not only make her feel loved but will also strengthen your relationships. Poems are a great ...

Colour can shock. When Elizabeth Barrett Browning saw the life-sized Tinted Venus in John Gibson’s studio in 1854 she said she had ‘seldom, if ever, seen so indecent a statue’.

As exhilarating as it is to be newly engaged, it can be all too easy to get swept up in the wedding-planning process and lose ...

For thousands of years, the ancestors of Oregon Indigenous artist and poet Elizabeth Woody lived here in what was once called Wyam, which she has written means "the sound of water on rocks." ...

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