Prominent 19th-century Romantic poets frequently lived outside traditional employment and died at young ages

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The Romantic movement originated in the early 19th century as an intellectual and artistic movement in literature and poetry

Nineteenth-century Romantic poetry established the cultural trope that true lovers understand each other instinctively without needing spoken language

Alain de Botton is an author, philosopher, and the founder of the educational organization The School of Life

Joseph Campbell wrote The Hero with a Thousand Faces following academic study of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake

In his essay Nostalgia, poet David Whyte defines nostalgia as a reaching back to an essential lost element rather than a passive indulgence in the past

Russian author Leo Tolstoy learned the Esperanto language

The first World Congress of Esperantists took place in France in 1905 with nearly 700 attendees from over 20 countries

Author Stephen King wrote several published novels, including Cujo, The Shining, and Pet Sematary, while experiencing alcohol and cocaine dependencies

The text and terms of the Treaty of Devol concluded between Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Bohemond of Taranto are recorded in Anna Komnene's Alexiad

The Gesta Francorum, an early 12th-century Latin chronicle, portrayed Bohemond of Taranto as a heroic leader while presenting Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos as untrustworthy

Norman chronicler Orderic Vitalis recorded detailed information concerning affairs in Constantinople while writing in Normandy during the 1120s

The Alexiad was composed in Greek by Anna Komnene during the late 1140s and early 1150s

The Alexiad is the first narrative history composed in a European language by a female author

Historian Edward Gibbon wrote that Anna Komnene's Alexiad displays the vanity of a female author on every page

Henry Shukman authored a poem titled 'The Slow One' reflecting on observing the ocean at dawn in Southern California

Octavio Paz described eroticism as being to sex what poetry is to prose

Elizabeth Alexander's book of essays, "The Trayvon Generation," is about the role of poetry in keeping the spirit of democracy alive

The lyrics to popular songs can be considered a modern form of poetry

Poet Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize for Literature

The audience for poetry in the modern world is small compared to the audience for Marvel movies