One in five (20%) believe classic love poetry only focuses on hetero-romantic love, while 60% claim the lack of ...

Valentine's Day has been linked to a 12th-century poem about birds mating, the Christian-martyr-turned-Saint Valentine and a ...

Donald Trump has issued a controversial Valentine's Day message to illegal immigrants entering the United States with people ...

It’s possible that young Chloe, in this poem, may be partially weak in the knees due to a burgeoning romance. But there is also indisputably an element of fear or nervousness in her depiction as a ...

As couples across the world prepared for Valentine's Day in February 2025, a rumor cropped up on social media that St.

The story of the origin of Valentine’s Day is shrouded in many myths and legends. According to one version, this day is dedicated to the priest Valentine, who served in Rome in the third century AD, ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

It’s Valentine’s Day, a time to express love and affection with a variety of messages and sentiments. It’s a time of ...

Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.