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 ...

William Wordsworth, a key figure of the Romantic movement, believed nature profoundly shaped human character and imagination.

All this year I've been highlighting poets from the Renaissance to today. Last month's column focused on the 18th century and Alexander Pope. By and large, the poets from the 16th to the 18th ...

Sigmund Freud, “The Moses of Michelangelo,” in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 24 vol., ed. James Strachey (London: The Hogarth Press, 1955), vol. 13, “Totem ...

WORDSWORTH’S early life presents a remarkable parallel to the position of magnanimous youth to-day. His world, like ours, was a scene of conflict between discredited institutions and a new spirit, ...

AMONG the great poets Wordsworth stands out pre-eminently as the one it is most easy to — laugh at, and sometimes the most difficult not to find dull. The forced extravagance of Shakespeare at his ...

Robert Frost is often designated by students and critics as the American poetical parallel of William Wordsworth, the forerunner of the Romantic Movement in England. It is widely believed that ...

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

New to 4 Extra. Daljit Nagra continues to delve into the BBC archive in search of the best poetry programmes. This week’s selection is presented by Joan Bakewell with readings by Ian McKellen. Joan ...