"Most Sweet it is With Unuplifted Eyes" was published in William Wordsworth's book "Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems" (R. Bartlett and S. Raynor, 1835). William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, ...

It is not difficult to see why some poets from Lord Byron to the present have resisted and sometimes even jeered at William Wordsworth (1770-1850). The refreshing heterodoxy of Wordsworth's youthful ...

Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World, by Jonathan Bate. Yale University Press. 608 pages. $35. William Wordsworth: A Life, by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press. 688 pages. $32.95.

Nature. We all know what it means. (Cows, the sky, puddles, volcanoes …) But what does it mean to have this single, oddly abstract word for the entire domain of the organic and nonhuman? How did we ...

From William Wordsworth to Emily Dickinson, Taylor Swift’s new album draws from a long legacy of Romantic-era literature. Gertrude Stein, known for her experimental writing style, was an American ...