Solitude was a Romantic ideal. What separates it from loneliness? Alberti explores the two ideas through the lives and work ...

As the tide slips away, the sands of Barmouth beach in Gwynedd reveal a haunting spectacle: the ghostly skeleton of an old railway line, stretching out across the shore as if travelling out to sea.

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More than two centuries after William Bartram explored the Southern Appalachian foothills, his words, like his footsteps, still echo through the ridgelines and river valleys he once traversed.   “How ...

Heffernan offers a synoptic, fluid version of Romanticism, but he admits that his aim has been to uncover the similarities rather than the differences between romantic poets and painters. Focussing on ...

Rosemary Hill’s most recent book is Time’s Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism.Her four-part series, The Lives of Stonehenge, can be found on the LRB Podcast.She is a contributing editor at the ...

William Allingham's Diary, Covering Forty Years of Literary London, Does for Victorian Period What Johnson's Biographer Did for Georgian. INTIMATE AND AUTHENTIC PICTURES Tennyson, ...

Wordsworth had foreseen the problem, much of which stemmed from his own lavish Lakeland paeans. By 1835, when his lakes guide was in its fifth printing (no longer anonymously, his poetry and fame by ...

William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Wordsworth. When you think of nature and poetry, the very first name that pops up (at least for the vast majority of people) is William Wordsworth.

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 ...

Keywords English literature, Romantic Period, literary criticism, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, freedom, brotherhood ...