"Most Sweet it is With Unuplifted Eyes" was published in William Wordsworth's book "Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems" (R. Bartlett and S. Raynor, 1835). William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, ...

The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent Christmas Day 1806 with his close friend William Wordsworth, together with Wordsworth’s wife Mary, her sister Sara Hutchinson and Wordsworth’s own sister, ...

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.

IN THIS SEASON of cancelled parties, the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth will also go unmarked in public. Celebrations of the English poet, born on April 7th 1770, should have bloomed ...

Nature. We all know what it means. (Cows, the sky, puddles, volcanoes …) But what does it mean to have this single, oddly abstract word for the entire domain of the organic and nonhuman? How did we ...

William Wordsworth, born April 7, 1770, the romantic poet extraordinaire, also found solace in watching cricket. Arunabha Sengupta writes about the cricketing connections of the man instrumental in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At this time of year, I’m often in the English Lake District, enjoying, with luck, some spring sunshine and ...