Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare’s first poems, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece', were published and he dedicated them to his patron, Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton.

Du Fu (712-770 AD) is regarded by many Chinese as their greatest poet. He was well known in his day, and made friends with other poets such as Li Bai, another famous poet in the Tang dynasty.

People prefer AI-generated poetry over Shakespeare and Byron because it is more ‘beautiful’ and easier to understand, a study has found. In the experiment some real works by major literary ...

The study protocol used five poems from 10 famous English poets including Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsberg and Sylvia Plath. The researchers enlisted ...