The Making Of Poetry: Coleridge, The Wordsworths And Their Year Of Marvels Adam Nicolson William Collins £25 For just over a year, two of ...

Poor Wordsworth. The least romantic of the Romantic poets. Not lovable in the way that Keats, Shelley or Byron are lovable and forever young. Early death (Keats dead at 26, Shelley at 30, Byron at 36) ...

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 ...

How the young poet, shaped by revolutionary politics, taught us to love the living world. By Kathleen Jamie “The second half of William Wordsworth’s life was the longest, dullest decline in literary ...

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 ...