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 ...

The day need not be measured by tasks but by experiences—reading a line of poetry, watching light fall differently across the ...

PROFESSOR RALEIGH’S book 1 is an earnest attempt to read the works of a poet by the light of the poet’s intention. It is not a criticism, nor a commentary, nor in the usual sense of the word an ...

Analysis: trees serving as natural epitaphs again and again in the stories Wordsworth told about the sufferings and hopes of ordinary people Trees are inveterately rooted in the here and now, ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, on April 7, 1770, the English poet William Wordsworth was born. We are also close to the anniversary of his death, which occurred 80 years later on April 23, 1850.

AMONG the great poets Wordsworth stands out pre-eminently as the one it is most easy to — laugh at, and sometimes the most difficult not to find dull. The forced extravagance of Shakespeare at his ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter I wrote a PhD on the poet William Wordsworth many years ago. More recently I returned to the subject to write a play about him. It ...

Until recently, fans of William Wordsworth could visit his final home, Rydal Mount and Gardens, nestled in the heart of England’s green and beautiful Lake District. Renowned as one of the most ...