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Book reviews: The Poets' Daughters by Katie Waldegrave

For this post we have two different reviews of a new biography of Sara Coleridge and Dora Wordsworth: the first…

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William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

245 years on, Wordsworth still has much to teach us

By Jonathan Kerr On the eve of William Wordsworth’s 245th birthday – an occasion celebrated by bibliophiles worldwide each April…

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Dramatisations and fictionalisations Film reviews

Film review: Bright Star

By Carla Ferreira “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— / Not in lone splendour hung aloft the…

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John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

Romantic readings: 'Bright Star' by John Keats

By Pamela Davenport I was first introduced to The Romantic Poets at primary school, where we learned to recite Wordworth’s…

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Film reviews Wordsworth and Romanticism

Sex and Death: Vampires from Coleridge to Hammer

By Barry Forshaw Initially, several Gothic novels were infused with a certain Anglican perspective that (among other things) aligned the…

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The Collection The Wordsworth Trust Wordsworth and Romanticism

Joseph Wilkinson and the Guide to the Lakes

By Jenny Uglow The Wordsworth Trust has nearly 50 watercolour sketches by Joseph Wilkinson (1765-1831), one of the figures on…

scratch9th March 2015

Percy Bysshe Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

It was a dark and stormy night: The strange story of ‘Shelley’s Ghost’

By Lynn Shepherd The episode that would later come to be referred to as ‘Shelley’s Ghost’ took place on 26th…

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Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

The literary collaboration of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley

By Anna Mercer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is frequently presented as a crucial figure in terms of her husband Percy Bysshe…

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William Blake

Exhibition review: William Blake: Apprentice and Master

An exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, until March 1st 2015 By Polly Marshall Taplin This peerless exhibition, at the…

scratch10th February 2015

William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Caves and Cliffs: The Wordsworth Picture Poems of 1818

By Tim Fulford William Westall (1781-1850) was already a much-travelled man when Robert Southey first introduced him to Wordsworth sometime…

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Book reviews: The Poets' Daughters by Katie Waldegrave

245 years on, Wordsworth still has much to teach us

Film review: Bright Star

Romantic readings: 'Bright Star' by John Keats

Sex and Death: Vampires from Coleridge to Hammer

Joseph Wilkinson and the Guide to the Lakes

It was a dark and stormy night: The strange story of ‘Shelley’s Ghost’

The literary collaboration of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Exhibition review: William Blake: Apprentice and Master

Caves and Cliffs: The Wordsworth Picture Poems of 1818

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