PROFESSOR RALEIGH’S book 1 is an earnest attempt to read the works of a poet by the light of the poet’s intention. It is not a criticism, nor a commentary, nor in the usual sense of the word an ...

250 years before the pandemic, the man who will forever be associated with daffodils was born in the Lake District in England. William Wordsworth (for it is he) was the second of five children and his ...

"Most Sweet it is With Unuplifted Eyes" was published in William Wordsworth's book "Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems" (R. Bartlett and S. Raynor, 1835). William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, ...

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.

They are back. Little white heads reaching up from the mulch of autumn leaves under the big cherry tree; snowdrops, harbingers of spring. Wordsworth devoted a charming sonnet to them in 1819. The ...

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, ...

BBC Radio 4 listeners praised Prince Charles' beautiful reading of a William Wordsworth poem to mark the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth. Charles, 71, who recently completed a period of ...