William Wordsworth, a key figure of the Romantic movement, believed nature profoundly shaped human character and imagination.

This study does not seek to propound a thesis, nor does it work toward any one conclusion. It is, rather, an attempt to illuminate a single major literary work from a number of points of view. I might ...

William Wordsworth's verse was the embodiment of the Romantic age, with its evocation of a unifying spirit running through all things. This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of ...

In a series of closely related essays, Professor Lindenberger analyzes the language, style, imagery, and organization of Wordsworth’s “Prelude.’’ In precise detail and with richly relevant use of ...

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 ...

“Those who are most active in promoting entire and immediate Abolition do not seem sufficiently to have considered that slavery is not in itself and at all times and under all circumstances to be ...

Earlier this year, The Quietus was due to head to the Lake District to work on a series of events as part of the 2020 Aerial Festival. Sadly, coronavirus put paid to that, but the positive news is ...

Robert Burns was not the only idealistic British poet to be initially entranced by the French Revolution. His younger contemporary William Wordsworth coined one of the great quotes of the era about it ...

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, ...

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Wordsworth gets a pat off Ryan Moore after making a winning reappearance at the CurraghCredit: Patrick McCann Aidan O'Brien and the Coolmore partners look to have another potential star stayer on ...