and in this series I'm talking poetry. In this episode we're comparing 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen and an extract from 'The Prelude' by William Wordsworth. We're looking at language, form ...

Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour. July 13, 1798 Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear ...

Articles Wordsworth & Darwin Christine Avery wonders whether poetry can help us to deal with science. In his poetic ...

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Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning: silent ...

little did he know that he had discovered the body of a World War One soldier and descendant of poet William Wordsworth. Artefacts such as a scrap of uniform, a pocket watch and a whistle were ...

Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...

A white marble life size figure of poet William Wordsworth is now placed next to Shakespeare's memorial and below the bust of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. The figure is ...