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 ...

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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 ...

The final home of Romantic poet William Wordsworth has been put up for sale. Wordsworth lived at Rydal Mount, in Ambleside in the Lake District, from 1813 until his death in 1850 and it has been open ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Scientists, psychologists and English academics at Liverpool University have found that reading the works of the Bard and other classical writers has a beneficial effect on the mind, catches the ...