People prefer AI-generated poetry to Shakespeare because it is more “beautiful” and easier to understand, a study has found. The Bard’s sonnets, as well as works by literary figures such as ...

I WAS idly leafing through an anthology of Elizabethan verse when I came upon George Peele’s lovely lyric “A Farewell to Arms”, and suddenly it summoned a poignant memory of my mother reciting that ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...