July 2018 - Wordsworth Grasmere

Dorothy Wordsworth The Wordsworth Trust William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

At home with the Wordsworths

by Pete May It’s hard to enter the vale of Grasmere and not think of William Wordsworth. The village is…

scratch28th July 2018

Claire Clairmont Film reviews Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

Film reviews: Mary Shelley, directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour

by Michael Johnstone A chief aim of Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Mary Shelley is established in the film’s opening shot: a young…

scratch23rd July 2018

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The enigma of Coleridge

by Edward Platten When the American poet and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, travelled to Great Britain, he met the two…

scratch15th July 2018