William Wordsworth, a pivotal Romantic poet, revolutionized English poetry by championing the "real language of men" and focusing on nature and everyday life. His work, emphasizing feelings, personal ...

"Michael", the final poem in Lyrical Ballads, begins quietly with a line that is nearly a promise and not quite an invitation: "If from the public way you turn your steps ..." The poem goes on to ...

The literary works of poet William Wordsworth presented by Irish writer James Plunkett. William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in the town of Cockermouth in Cumbria, England. As a child he was stiff and ...

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.

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 ...

Imagine living in a "vortex of poetry" — that's how biographer Frances Wilson describes life in England's Lake District. The year was 1800, and William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth ...