Until recently, fans of William Wordsworth could visit his final home, Rydal Mount and Gardens, nestled in the heart of England’s green and beautiful Lake District. Renowned as one of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the Romantic poet’s younger brother John died at sea, marine artefacts helped him bear the loss, research reveals When William Wordsworth’s beloved younger brother John died on a ship that sank ...

Imagine living in a "vortex of poetry" — that's how biographer Frances Wilson describes life in England's Lake District. The year was 1800, and William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth ...

Stephen Fry and Brian Cox have joined descendants of the great Romantic and members of the public to record a host of his poems Stephen Fry and Brian Cox’s sonorous tones can be heard declaiming ...

Analysis: trees serving as natural epitaphs again and again in the stories Wordsworth told about the sufferings and hopes of ordinary people Trees are inveterately rooted in the here and now, ...

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