William Wordsworth, a key figure of English Romanticism, believed the human mind's capacity for imagination and emotion far ...

Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World, by Jonathan Bate. Yale University Press. 608 pages. $35. William Wordsworth: A Life, by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press. 688 pages. $32.95.

He wrote that the ‘human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants’. And it appears that simply reading those words by William Wordsworth prove his point.

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, ...

Here is the English poet William Wordsworth, writing about Winter sports early in the Nineteenth Century. The sport is skating, and the passage is in the first book ...