February 2017 - Wordsworth Grasmere

Samuel Taylor Coleridge The intellectual context of Romanticism William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

'Flashes upon the inward eye’ : Wordsworth, Coleridge and ‘Flashing Flowers’

by Fred Blick Few readers will be aware of the ‘Elizabeth Linnaeus phenomenon’ today; yet over a span of almost…

scratch22nd February 2017

The Wordsworth Trust The work of the Wordsworth Trust

Behind Closed Doors: a month of maintenance and conservation at Dove Cottage

For one month a year, in January, Dove Cottage is closed to the public. A small team of staff have…

scratch21st February 2017

Lord Byron Wordsworth and Romanticism

'The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be'’: Ada Lovelace and her mother Annabella Byron

by Eleanor Fitzsimons ‘Never was a bridegroom less in haste’. This worrisome observation was noted down by politician and diarist…

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