The correspondence includes an admission he was struggling to pen lines of poetry in his later life.

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 ...

The excitement that accompanied the beginning of the Arab Spring has now largely died down, as a timeworn truth reiterates itself: when an oppressive power is toppled, a similar or worse one will ...

Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning: silent, ...

The radical young poet’s backhanded tribute to the older writer is a stern judgment on his lapsed political idealism To Wordsworth Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know That things depart which never ...

Beloved Romantic poet William Wordsworth was the first "influencer" to champion the Lake District and call for its conservation, a new exhibition claims. Wordsworth penned his Guide to the Lakes more ...

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.