Romanticism was a wave of literary expression that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Characterized by its emphasis on emotional and spiritual values as well as its deep ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...