An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, ...

The 17th-century epic gave the modern age its most famous vision of Eden but, argues the author of a new book, the poem’s influence on landscape and garden design can still be seen today ...

If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding.

The recently discovered copy of Sonnet 116 "reads as a political love song" during England's Civil Wars, according to the ...

Theatre of Voices were also visiting the city as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Cambridge Music Conference.

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In subsequent decades, observers would borrow the phrase to describe such figures as Al Smith, Hubert Humphrey, and Ronald ...

Some songwriters started writing poetry before segueing into song. Others will even say that most of their songs started as a poem, or inspired by the work of classic poetry, or poets. Videos by ...

In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare’s first poems, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The ... It is thought Shakespeare also wrote most of his sonnets at this time. Shakespeare was prolific, with records of ...

“Classics of British Children’s Literature” Here's your chance to experience firsthand the inspiration for some of the world's most famous children's ... Elizabeth Turner, William Blake, William ...

Interest in Australian poetry has dipped significantly since ‘The Man from Snowy River’. Why is this? And how can we get it ...