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 ...

William Wordsworth's quote, 'Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be,' offers a ...

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 ...

The radical young poet’s backhanded tribute to the older writer is a stern judgment on his lapsed political idealism ...

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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 ...

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 ...

"Michael", the final poem in Lyrical Ballads, begins quietly with a line that is nearly a promise and not quite an invitation: "If from the public way you turn your steps ..." The poem goes on to ...

Wordsworth penned the 1840 letter in response to a request by Southey, who was Poet Laureate at the time, to cast his eye over a poem. The pair, who both lived in the Lake District, enjoyed a friendly ...

Had William Wordsworth not been a poet, he could have earned his living as a landscape gardener, says Peter Elkington, curator of Rydal Mount, the house in the Lake District that was Wordsworth’s ...