This poem strikes me as offering a vision of Milton which is remarkably like the one William Blake put forward. He is heroic and contrarian (and an early advocate of divorce, something which would ...

William Wordsworth was one of the first English ... the present situation of England if he was alive. Through “London 1802”, Wordsworth shed light upon the deteriorating conditions of the ...

For example: “Earth has not any thing to show more fair: / Dull would he be of soul who could pass by / A sight so touching in its majesty,” about London at the dawn of the nineteenth century, of all ...

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Sept 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth (1770-1850 ... came up with the following words to describe a London familiar with bike-couriers and ample amounts of litter.

If William Wordsworth could return today ... For one of the greatest changes since 1802 is that the City of London is no longer residential. Most, however, survive. And what also survived until ...

Brian Cox, Miriam Margolyes and Paul McGann are among actors, artists and writers calling for the final home of Romantic poet William Wordsworth ... from his home in London. Grade I listed ...