What would that biography be like which managed to include every surviving record of a life? Every document, letter and journal entry? Every encounter, known movement, illustration? What we might call ...

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journals have never been out of print since their publication in full in 1958. This astute and elegantly written biography not only delves into the tension between what ...

Poor Wordsworth. The least romantic of the Romantic poets. Not lovable in the way that Keats, Shelley or Byron are lovable and forever young. Early death (Keats dead at 26, Shelley at 30, Byron at 36) ...

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 ...