“Those who are most active in promoting entire and immediate Abolition do not seem sufficiently to have considered that slavery is not in itself and at all times and under all circumstances to be ...

The poet’s youthful disappointment with Cambridge University brings intriguing complication to a perennial complaint ‘Residence at Cambridge’ (Book Three, The Prelude) Not that I slighted Books; that ...

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 old hillside road linking Grasmere and Ambleside, above Windermere, stands a gate that “time out of mind”, as William Wordsworth put it, has been called the Wishing Gate. This month, while ...