William Wordsworth was a famous English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic movement. He was born in 1770 in England’s Lake District. Wordsworth believed that nature has the power to teach, heal ...

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 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 ...

Have you ever ventured into the Octagon, which used to be the Queen Mary library, for meetings or lectures and has your eye started wandering around the room? In doing so your gaze may have rested on ...

The manuscript was prepared for the printer over the winter of 1806-7 A manuscript of the William Wordsworth poem most associated with the Lake District has returned to Cumbria. The hand-written copy ...