Romanticism was a wave of literary expression that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Characterized by its emphasis on emotional and spiritual values as well as its deep ...

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 ...

Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth, English scholar: born London 28 November 1932; Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford 1958-80 (Emeritus); Lecturer in English Literature, Oxford University 1958-80, University ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, on April 7, 1770, the English poet William Wordsworth was born. We are also close to the anniversary of his death, which occurred 80 years later on April 23, 1850.

On the 250th anniversary of his birth, a biography focusing on the poet’s most creative years zings with passion and energy In 1798, William Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at the cottage of his ...