Reading, writes Edwina Preston, is a way of journeying on the wings of others without moving from the armchair (or bed). Here ...

De Quincey was one of the first readers to recognise the significance of Lyrical Ballads. His earliest contact with William Wordsworth came in 1803 ... into his imagination and establishing his own ...

A Scottish mansion where William Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott are believed to have smoked opium has been put up for sale. Barony House is situated in the Midlothian village of Lasswade near ...

William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple, globally acclaimed historian and bestselling author, came to Kolkata to speak at the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival on January 10 on a panel titled ‘On a Golden ...

Dorothy Wordsworth lies buried in one of ... companionship with their friend Coleridge as he and William, with Dorothy’s assistance, created Lyrical Ballads and the Romantic Movement in English poetry ...

Wordsworth claimed to so dislike the thought of his letters one day being published that, in order to guard against this possibility, he always took pains to make them as bad and dull as possible.

Scots and those with Scottish cultural connections will gather to celebrate Burns Night - an annual holiday that honors the ...