The Making Of Poetry: Coleridge, The Wordsworths And Their Year Of Marvels Adam Nicolson William Collins £25 For just over a year, two of ...
Republican, eco-warrior young Wordsworth v grand older poet – 250 after his birth, do we still have to take sides? James Boswell started his biography of Dr Johnson on an anxious note: “To write the ...
What would that biography be like which managed to include every surviving record of a life? Every document, letter and journal entry? Every encounter, known movement, illustration? What we might call ...
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 ...
How the young poet, shaped by revolutionary politics, taught us to love the living world. By Kathleen Jamie “The second half of William Wordsworth’s life was the longest, dullest decline in literary ...
It’s time to celebrate the great Romantic poet William Wordsworth, born 250 years ago in a picturesque market town in northern England. One way to size up his achievement is to venture backward, ...
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 ...
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