The former Labour leader posted the famous ‘Rise like lions’ verse to promote his poetry anthology – but Twitter users thought it was his own, and weren’t impressed

Communes are on the rise, but we’ve been here before – 200 years ago Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his poet friends were pinning their hopes on the collective good

For Valentine’s Day, we return to one of the first Romantic poems I fell for, which reveals a lot about ‘what men call love’

Pitched somewhere between horror and historical drama, this film probes the personal trauma that may have shaped Shelley’s invention of Frankenstein

This magnificently honest play about the Shelleys and Byron’s summer of sexual experimentation raises difficult questions about the cost of utopian aspirations

Her letters show that the author turned to women after her husband’s death. It’s an important insight into intimate history – and an inspiring example

This reimagining of a classic shifts our view of humanity in a darkly entertaining style

Sunshine, sensuality, and a dash of danger... the ‘warm south’ has fascinated writers and artists for hundreds of years. But why are the Brits so obsessed?

Saudi director Haifaa Al-Mansour captures the pathos and pity of the Frankenstein story while eliciting an insouciant and poised performance from her star

This vibrant, incident-packed biography of the novelist is haunted by all the people she lost

From Shakespeare to Woolf, Turner to Gormley, Philip Hoare explores the eternal allure of the ocean