By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Valentine's Day has been linked to a 12th-century poem about birds mating, the Christian-martyr-turned-Saint Valentine and a ...

The spirit of Valentine’s Day, like February itself, is best kept short and sweet. On the occasion of a notoriously ...

Korea has built a massively successful industry out of telling love stories, and Netflix executives have come to recognize ...

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

Celebrate love with eight touching stories that will warm your heart this Valentine's Day, from chance encounters to lifelong ...

Valentine’s Day -- the holiday made for a Hallmark movie. At least that’s what it seems like now. But it wasn’t always so ...

Valentine's Day has long been celebrated as a day of romance filled with red roses, heart-shaped candies and chocolate boxes.

The best-selling author based “The Notebook” and other heart-tugging novels in New Bern, where he lives. But what makes the ...

We may never know if St. Valentine, a martyr beheaded for officiating the forbidden weddings of persecuted Christians, was ...

Consider the popular idea that you need to love yourself first, before you can find love from others. It was set out in the ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...