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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...