The correspondence includes an admission he was struggling to pen lines of poetry in his later life.

RESIDENTS of a village famous for its ties to a romantic poet are fuming over plans to transform a restaurant into a kebab ...

Quaint, picturesque and nestled among rolling fells, it is no wonder that William Wordsworth described Grasmere as the ...

A Lake District village once described by Wordsworth as 'the loveliest spot that man hath ever found' is under siege... from ...

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 ...

Wordsworth lived at Rydal Mount from 1813 until his death in 1850 A descendant of William Wordsworth says he hopes the final home of the Romantic poet, which is on the market, goes to the best "not ...

The human-services agency, rocked by the homicide of a resident in one of its facilities last fall, has agreed to be acquired by Public Health Management Corp. as part of a reorganization. Public ...

Fears have been raised over the future of the house where the celebrated Romantic poet William Wordsworth was born. The National Trust, which owns Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumbria, said the ...

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 ...

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 ...