Acclaimed Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) wrote this exquisite poem for fiery Irish revolutionary and actress Maud Gonne in 1899. Arguably one of the most beautiful love poems ever ...

W. B. Yeats describes this source of poetry: “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry” (“Anima Hominis,” Per Amica Silentia Lunae, 1918).

Will You Fall in Love With This Poem? I Did. “Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year. Share full article 273 ...

But in carrying out my research on Renaissance literature and gender, I’ve been struck by how many of that period’s love poems were not for lovers.