Category: Poetry

I came across John Keats for the very first time in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. In the book, Virginia talks of…

When it comes to poetry, my interest is centered on the British Romantic era, the only exception being epic poetry. Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems…

Paris Spleen is a retelling of Les Fleurs du Mal in a more profound and elaborate manner. It’s more powerful with its touch on…

Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) is an unusual collection of poetry in its bold thematic exposition of taboo subjects and darker…

Aurora Leigh is an epic poem which Elizabeth Barrett Browning herself styled as a “novel in verse” to which she has poured her profound…

Sonnets from the Portuguese is a collection of forty-four love poems written to Robert Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning during their courtship. Apparently, they…