Contemporary creative responses

Contemporary creative responses The work of the Wordsworth Trust

A 21st-century Détournement of Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth rewritten by homeless Britain

by Jeffrey C. Robinson "The ‘experiment,’ we think, has failed...” (Robert Southey on Lyrical Ballads) Reading some of the first…

Lynn Shepherd25th August 2023

Contemporary creative responses Percy Bysshe Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

Love, Women, and Guitars: Night Birds Flying in Percy Shelley and Jimi Hendrix

by Julian S. Whitney British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was not unlike the famed rock and roll electric…

Lynn Shepherd20th March 2022

Charles Lamb Contemporary creative responses Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wordsworth and Romanticism

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb at Christ’s Hospital

A selection of poetry by Adam Neikirk Lives there a Londoner who has not, at some stray hour or…

Lynn Shepherd16th September 2021

Contemporary creative responses William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Lucy Newlyn’s ‘Vital Stream’

by Adam Neikirk On the Rock of Names my own initials come Just after William’s, to signify His love…

Lynn Shepherd22nd April 2020

Contemporary creative responses William Blake Wordsworth and Romanticism

Setting William Blake to music

by Joseph Andrew Thompson My introduction to William Blake came through a copy of Songs of Innocence and Experience, lent…

scratch9th February 2019

Contemporary creative responses William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Re-imagining the Wordsworths IV: A walk with sound

by Kate Sweeney It is an autumn morning in Gateshead and I am walking through Saltwell Park. The sun is…

scratch15th November 2018

Contemporary creative responses Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wordsworth and Romanticism

'A deep Romantic chasm': exploring the valley where Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan

by Peter Fiennes It interests me, the idea that the spirit of a person lingers in a place long…

scratch4th June 2018

Contemporary creative responses Lord Byron Wordsworth and Romanticism

David Bowie and Romanticism

By Matthew Sangster, Emily Bernhard Jackson, Joanna Taylor and Beatrice Turner In thinking about the developments of the Romantic period, scholars…

scratch18th September 2017

Contemporary creative responses Dramatisations and fictionalisations Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wordsworth and Romanticism

'The Albatross': From Rime to opera

by Sinéad O'Neill Melville was right when he wrote, of the Albatross, ‘that white phantom sails in all imaginations.’ It…

scratch7th August 2017

Contemporary creative responses Dramatisations and fictionalisations Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Wordsworth in Leicestershire

by Jeanne Rae Coleorton is an unremarkable village in North West Leicestershire, where the landscape was defined for almost 500…

scratch10th April 2017

A 21st-century Détournement of Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth rewritten by homeless Britain

Love, Women, and Guitars: Night Birds Flying in Percy Shelley and Jimi Hendrix

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb at Christ’s Hospital

Lucy Newlyn’s ‘Vital Stream’

Setting William Blake to music

Re-imagining the Wordsworths IV: A walk with sound

'A deep Romantic chasm': exploring the valley where Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan

David Bowie and Romanticism

'The Albatross': From Rime to opera

Wordsworth in Leicestershire

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