THE eminent literary scholar Sir Jonathan Bate will give the annual Hazlitt Society lecture next week, focusing on the relationship between the 19th-century writer and the poet William Wordsworth.

College students spend anywhere from 12 to 18 hours per week in a lecture hall. Their eyes wander across their computer. They sort their to-do list, complete the Wordle and text their friends. In the ...

The final home of poet William Wordsworth has been bought by the trust set up in his name. The Romantic writer lived in Rydal Mount, in Ambleside, Cumbria, from 1813 until his death in 1850 and it was ...

Romantic poet’s Rydal Mount and Gardens, marketed for over £2.5m, will remain open under Wordsworth Trust It was the family home where William Wordsworth hosted Alfred, Lord Tennyson, lived as poet ...

The radical young poet’s backhanded tribute to the older writer is a stern judgment on his lapsed political idealism To Wordsworth Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know That things depart which never ...

William Wordsworth was one of the most important Romantic poets in English. He was also a major player in changing how people saw poetry. Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, which is ...

William Wordsworth, the Lake Poet famed for celebrating nature's beauty in verse, transformed English Romanticism. Today's quote of the day by William Wordsworth highlights life's true value—explore ...

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PROF. CONWAY's “Great Inheritance” is classical—in this instance Latin—literature, and the authors with whom he is chiefly concerned are Oicero, Vergil, Horace, and Livy. It is not necessary to dwell ...

When poet William Wordsworth wrote his ode to a daffodil "I wandered lonely as a cloud" way back in 1804, little did he realise that, more than 220 years later, the object of his words would be ...

The head of World Vision Australia Daniel Wordsworth has left the charity under a cloud after a series of claims were made against him, including alleged bullying. The worldwide charity organisation ...