It was only much later that I realised they were my first attempts at poetry.”He would later write love poems of his own ...

But in carrying out my research on Renaissance literature and gender, I've been struck by how many of that period's love poems were not for lovers. These sonnets, composed for friends and family ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She ...

Professor Phiroze Vasunia has curated a list of poems on Sheperd, a book discovery site. I’ve been fascinated by the ancient Greeks and Romans since my teenage years. I was lucky to have inspiring ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.