William Wordsworth, a key figure of the Romantic movement, believed nature profoundly shaped human character and imagination.

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 ...

The year 2020 will mark the 250th birth anniversary of the English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth. William Wordsworth (Photo: Wikimedia commons) The year 2020 will mark the 250th birth anniversary ...

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 ...

A descendant of the poet William Wordsworth was stopped at a UK airport and quizzed by police over his Russian links, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Andrew Wordsworth, one of Britain's leading private ...

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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 ...

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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 ...