It includes poems from Beethoven’s point of view, as he struggles with deafness and rejection by the woman for whom he wrote the “Moonlight Sonata.” “Part of the solving or the resolution ...

Like Beethoven, the poet Ruth Padel first came to love and understand music through playing ... David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of Political Poems, about what makes a great political ...

In the poem, Schiller conveys how the sparking of joy among friends can unite what customs have divided, urging us to "seek God above the starry canopy". Beethoven composed his last symphony late ...