Stephen Fry and Brian Cox have joined descendants of the great Romantic and members of the public to record a host of his poems Stephen Fry and Brian Cox’s sonorous tones can be heard declaiming ...

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 ...

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 ...

250 years before the pandemic, the man who will forever be associated with daffodils was born in the Lake District in England. William Wordsworth (for it is he) was the second of five children and his ...

Has there ever been a great poet as tempting to laugh at as William Wordsworth? The tradition of mocking him is as old as the tradition of revering him. In 1807, when Wordsworth published “Poems, in ...

William Wordsworth, a key figure of English Romanticism, believed the human mind's capacity for imagination and emotion far surpasses the beauty of the natural world. His poetry, born from ordinary ...

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.

To celebrate 250 years since his birth, we take 10 train and bus trips to houses, gardens, lakes – vales and hills, too – that were important to this early environmentalist William Wordsworth was born ...