Poetry has dropped so far out of the cultural mainstream in the U.S. that even seeing a great poem mangled, manhandled or misunderstood almost makes us smile. Every time a high-school commencement ...

The Keats-Shelley Journal is published (in print form: ISSN 0453-4387) annually by the Keats-Shelley Association of America. It contains articles on John Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron ...

In 1811, a college student decided to protest war by writing poetry. Britain was fighting Napoleonic France at the time, and the 18-year-old Oxford student mourned the carnage, waste, and poverty he ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Just off the highway heading south on I-27 out of Amarillo are two gigantic legs in ...

There’s a crucial moment in Breaking Bad when Jesse, unsure of his partner’s motivations, asks Walt a simple question: “Are we in the meth business or the money business?” Walt’s chilling reply: ...

Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley’s famed works have helped his reputation extend to the worlds of politics and history thanks to the influence of his poem “The Masque of Anarchy,” a passionate ...

The Muse had plainly dawdled. Shelley’s start was rocky, too. He got hung up first on “pedestal”, a tricky word to fit into a metre (“There stands by Nile a lone single pedestal”). Then he was ...