An icon of his time, Lord Byron (aka George Gordon) is one of the best-known English poets of the early 19th-century Romantic Movement. He’s just as famous for his countless affairs with men and ...

The Romantic poets redefined how we think about topics such as nature, revolution and the imagination - but just how well do you know them? And how romantic were they really? BBC Bitesize ...

The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...

That’s right, two of Poland’s most famous Romantic poets were (mostly) friendly rivals who squared off in a legendary Christmas Day battle of words in 1840. Tensions between the two had been long ...

Above the statue to Shakespeare in Poets' Corner is a small oval mural tablet with a lyre to Romantic poet Percy Shelley. This is joined with a carved swag of flowers to an identical tablet for John ...