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‘He reads Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, and Latin’ wrote William’s sister Dorothy in a letter of 1791, when Wordsworth was 21. As a young man Wordsworth enjoyed exploring European culture, and in ...

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 ...

Quote of the Day: A powerful Quote of the Day often carries a quiet truth that feels timeless, reaching across generations without losing its meaning. William Wordsworth’s reflection on kindness does ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. - William ...

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 ...

It is 250 years since the birth of the great English poet William Wordsworth. A lover of nature, his poetry abounds with images of lambs, flowers in full bloom, windswept crags and woodland scenes.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, on April 7, 1770, the English poet William Wordsworth was born. We are also close to the anniversary of his death, which occurred 80 years later on April 23, 1850.