While it was Percy Shelley who argued that poets were the “unacknowledged legislators of the world”, William Wordsworth was the poet, according to Jonathan Bate, who actually transformed it. After the ...

All this year I've been highlighting poets from the Renaissance to today. Last month's column focused on the 18th century and Alexander Pope. By and large, the poets from the 16th to the 18th ...

We have absorbed so much of the romantic vision — the sublimity of mountains, the mesmerizing moments alone in nature, the belief in childhood innocence, the faith (however tarnished these days) in ...

The literary works of poet William Wordsworth presented by Irish writer James Plunkett. William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in the town of Cockermouth in Cumbria, England. As a child he was stiff and ...

The route follows in the Romantic poet’s footsteps, traces his life and celebrates the landscapes that inspired so much of his work ‘Come forth into the light of things,” implored William Wordsworth ...

The Making Of Poetry: Coleridge, The Wordsworths And Their Year Of Marvels Adam Nicolson William Collins £25 For just over a year, two of ...

Collection includes family Bible and two portraits that have never been put on display A treasure trove of newly discovered items belonging to William Wordsworth, one of England’s greatest poets, have ...