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 ...
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 ...
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 ...