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 ...
A quote by William Wordsworth reminds us that wisdom is found in humility, not ambition. Wordsworth, born in England's Lake District, found inspiration in nature and ordinary people. His life and work ...
William Wordsworth, a key figure of the Romantic movement, believed nature profoundly shaped human character and imagination.
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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