“Trust me, the fountain of youth, it is no fable. It is running Truly and always. Ye ask, where? In poetical art.” - Friedrich Schiller,...

While most professors and critics place John Keats in the same category of poets as Romantics like Lord Byron, William Wordsworth and...

We are inaugurating a new series, aimed at taking a different poem on each occasion and analyzing it from the standpoint of how a great...

Edgar Allan Poe laid down the principles of poetic composition in several of his essays, notably “The Poetic Principle.” However, he did...

William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 – died April 23, 1616) is arguably the greatest writer in any language. His poetry is not...

Seldom is Edgar Allan Poe's voice heard today. It is drowned out by the popular culture's notions of some deranged man whose stories and...

The answer to the above question is of course no. Shakespeare is not dead because every true poet is immortal. However, many contemporary...