Such foreshadowing, of course, is never good news in the literary world of romantic poetry, and Bess has to make a brave sacrifice to save her love. Noyes uses clever and vivid imagery to tell the ...

their romantic friendship seems to skirt simple categories of sexual orientation. Most published writers in Renaissance Italy were men, but a not-insignificant number were women. Existing in a single ...

love poetry and plays. Some are romance novels entirely: for others, though, love might just be a small part of their stories. Together we think they make a collection of the best romantic quotes ...