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ENGL 5059-001: British Literature and Culture After 1800, Contesting Romantic Poetry, The Lakers vs. the Cockneys

We will be exploring the rich and varied poetry of what has come to be called the romantic period. While over the course of the nineteenth century, critics arrived at some consensus about what ...
The New York Times

Where Romantic Poetry in a Fading Language Draws Stadium Crowds

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...
The Irish Times

Romantic Ireland: Yeats and ‘The Irish Times’, poetry on newsprint

If a Dubliner happened to buy some fish and chips in early September 1913, he might have discovered on his newspaper wrapping the words "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone / It's with O'Leary in the ...
The Guardian

Poetic defiance and Romantic ideals

There are many good examples of poetry in movies (On film, Film & Music, 29 January). One that springs to mind is Argentinian director Eliseo Subiela's 1992 film El Lado Oscuro del Corazón (The Dark ...