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A poet laureate, William Wordsworth remains one of the most popular romantic poets. To celebrate his birthday, here are 10 of William Wordsworth’s most famous poems that you should read.
Why is he still so famous? The obvious answer ... By describing those people—Wordsworth’s friend William Howitt, for instance, who wrote travel books about the Lake District, in which ...
The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent Christmas Day 1806 with his close friend William Wordsworth ... This prompted Wordsworth’s most famous poem, so familiar that it has almost become a ...
His ancestor is, of course, one of the world’s most famous literary figures ... Andrew has written a book – Well-kept Secrets: The Story of William Wordsworth – to shed some new light ...
A copy of a poetry book hailed as one of the most important ... The second edition of Lyrical Ballads published in 1800, contains the famous Strange Fits Of Passion Have I Known. The work by William ...
The new "hip-hop" version of the famous poem and an accompanying pop video can be seen at Cumbria Tourism's website. The magic of William Wordsworth's words has delighted generations of people ...
The Rainbow is a famous poem by William Wordsworth. One of the UK's most famous ... Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem, The Fate of Adelaide, was in a book of the same name and was published in ...
A new book on William and Dorothy Wordsworth proves the point A new book ... His first, and still most famous novel, Lord of the Flies, was a mess when he submitted it (and he had it rejected ...
Wordsworth and Coleridge were very different men: the former great, remote, preaching a billowing pantheism that somehow excluded the human, while the latter was incessantly, pantingly ...
All this year I've been highlighting poets from the Renaissance to today. Last month's column focused on the 18th century and Alexander Pope. By and large, the poets from the 16th to the 18th ...