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 ...

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 ...

It’s time to celebrate the great Romantic poet William Wordsworth, born 250 years ago in a picturesque market town in northern England. One way to size up his achievement is to venture backward, ...

Émile Legouis, a professor at the Sorbonne, was not the first scholar to realise that the young Wordsworth had had a child by a French mistress, but he was the first, in 1922, to tell the story in ...

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.