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 ...

All this year I've been highlighting poets from the Renaissance to today. Last month's column focused on the 18th century and Alexander Pope. By and large, the poets from the 16th to the 18th ...

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.

Sigmund Freud, “The Moses of Michelangelo,” in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 24 vol., ed. James Strachey (London: The Hogarth Press, 1955), vol. 13, “Totem ...

I think Wordsworth’s 19th century poem would not be out of place today in a Nature Conservancy or National Wildlife’s magazine. The world is more than we can handle, he writes. We keep messing things ...

WORDSWORTH’S early life presents a remarkable parallel to the position of magnanimous youth to-day. His world, like ours, was a scene of conflict between discredited institutions and a new spirit, ...

PROFESSOR RALEIGH’S book 1 is an earnest attempt to read the works of a poet by the light of the poet’s intention. It is not a criticism, nor a commentary, nor in the usual sense of the word an ...

Alex Miller, Jr. does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

MR. SCRUTON'S comments, with which I am in entire agreement, afford me an opportunity of making good an omission from my article. I omitted to state that my notes were limited to Wordsworth's poetical ...