On the 250th anniversary of his birth, a biography focusing on the poet’s most creative years zings with passion and energy In 1798, William Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at the cottage of his ...

Wordsworth's major work is a massive autobiographical poem called The Prelude, which explored "the growth of a poet's mind." The only previous poems of a similar length had been epics like Paradise ...

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 ...

Stephen Fry and Brian Cox’s sonorous tones can be heard declaiming William Wordsworth’s The World is Too Much With Us, Caroline Quentin is reading the Romantic poet’s Lines Written in Early Spring and ...

Break-ups had happened before of course. Henry VIII's split from the Vatican comes to mind, or Socrates' spat with the Athenian state, but this is the break-up over which we still take sides. Even ...

THE introductory lines which appear in the complete collection of Wordsworth's poems crystallise, with such singular fitness, the point of view so ably expressed in the supplement to NATURE of January ...

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.