On the 250th anniversary of his birth, a biography focusing on the poet’s most creative years zings with passion and energy In 1798, William Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at the cottage of his ...

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 ...

Far more than the famous author of Daffodils, William Wordsworth was a creative radical and one of the greatest ever English poets. Two hundred and fifty years after his birth in 1770, Professor ...

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 ...