William Wordsworth (for it is he) was the second of five children and his early life was the stuff of a streaming mini-series: separated from his beloved sister at 8, orphaned at 13, child out of ...

When it comes to the relationship between trees and humanity, the English poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) has a great deal to offer. Trees were pervasive in Wordsworth’s England.

Wordsworth was not unusual among Romantic poets for his enthusiastic support of the French Revolution, but he stands apart from his contemporaries for actually being there to see it for himself (‘Thou ...

She was so captivated by the sight she recorded it in her journal, and Wordsworth later created the poem from that. The manuscript on show was one prepared for the printer over the winter of 1806-7.

Only when Wordsworth returned to nature – first in the English west country and then when he went home to the Lakes – did he become his true self and write his greatest poetry.

Both Burns and Wordsworth wrote on great philosophical themes and about the most modest of flowers. Burns’s daisy was uprooted and provoked a melancholy reflection from the poet. Wordsworth’s ...