The literary works of poet William Wordsworth presented by Irish writer James Plunkett. William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in the town of Cockermouth in Cumbria, England. As a child he was stiff and ...

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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.

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 ...

Wordsworth penned the 1840 letter in response to a request by Southey, who was Poet Laureate at the time, to cast his eye over a poem. The pair, who both lived in the Lake District, enjoyed a friendly ...

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, ...

The home of poet William Wordsworth – Allan Bank in Grasmere, Cumbria – has been decorated with ‘literary graffiti’ by enthusiastic poetry fans. The National Trust’s Elaine Taylor said the graffiti ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter I wrote a PhD on the poet William Wordsworth many years ago. More recently I returned to the subject to write a play about him. It ...

The final Lake District home of Romantic 'Daffodils' poet William Wordsworth has been put up for sale for a staggering £2.5m by heartbroken his direct descendant. Wordsworth lived at Rydal Mount, in ...