Wordsworth and Romanticism

Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

A new species of poetry: The making of Lyrical Ballads

by Jonathan Kerr The Lyrical Ballads (1798) – Wordsworth and Coleridge’s first major literary undertaking and a pioneering work of…

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William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Wordsworth and the French Revolution

by Sinead Fitzgibbon On the right bank of the Seine, just a stone’s throw away from the Palais Royal, the…

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Lord Byron Wordsworth and Romanticism

'A Tassel to the Purse of Merit': Byron and literary failure

by Andrew Stott For those who crave celebrity, obscurity is the worst affront – a long stretch in the penal…

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John Clare Wordsworth and Romanticism

The microscopic eye of John Clare

By Sue Edney John Clare liked to get his head down in the grass – ‘close to nature’ in every…

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

‘Full fathom five the poet lies’: The death of Percy Bysshe Shelley

by Lynn Shepherd Percy Bysshe Shelley died on 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went…

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Dramatisations and fictionalisations Mary Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

Frankenstein in Hollywood

by Barry Forshaw ‘It’s alive! It’s alive!’ gasps the English actor Colin Clive, working himself into a paroxysm over the…

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

Romantic Readings: 'The Cloud' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

by Sarah Doyle Let’s be honest. In our weather-obsessed culture, clouds have a fairly poor reputation, both meteorologically and metaphorically. …

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Wordsworth and Romanticism

Walking with Wordsworth

By Ian Hamilton It’s sometimes difficult to see past Wordsworth when you consider the relationship between landscape and literature. Other…

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Book reviews Wordsworth and Romanticism

Book review: A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd

This book is now being republished as 'The Frankenstein Monster' Reviewed by Pam Norfolk He was one of England’s great…

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John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

Romantic readings: ‘When I have fears’ by John Keats

by Suzie Grogan John Keats has always been ‘my’ poet. I bought my first Collected Poems as a twelve-year-old in…

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A new species of poetry: The making of Lyrical Ballads

Wordsworth and the French Revolution

'A Tassel to the Purse of Merit': Byron and literary failure

The microscopic eye of John Clare

‘Full fathom five the poet lies’: The death of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Frankenstein in Hollywood

Romantic Readings: 'The Cloud' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Walking with Wordsworth

Book review: A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd

Romantic readings: ‘When I have fears’ by John Keats

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