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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…

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Dorothy Wordsworth The work of the Wordsworth Trust William Wordsworth

Re-imagining the Wordsworths III: A host of daffodils, a host of words

by Lucy Stone ‘It feels as if you’re, when you speak it, as if you’re dancing and swaying in the wind,…

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John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

Keats and Constable in Hampstead: Could they have met?

by Don Oldham In the summer of 1819 a moderately successful landscape painter and his ailing wife took a small…

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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…

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Lord Byron Wordsworth and Romanticism

The Byron effect

by Miranda Seymour Any study of the lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter points towards one inescapable conclusion: the…

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Dorothy Wordsworth William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Spring shoots and green peas: the Wordsworths and their kitchen garden

by Gareth Evans Following six months of settled living with his sister Dorothy, one May morning William Wordsworth left Dove…

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John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

The Gravestone of John Keats: Romancing the Stone

by Ian Reynolds John Keats died in Rome aged twenty-five on February 23rd, 1821 and is buried at the Cemitero…

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The winners of the 2018 Wordsworth birthday poem competition

We had another wonderful set of entries this year, on the subject of 'The child is father of the man'. …

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Dorothy Wordsworth The Wordsworth Trust William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Reimagining the Wordsworths II: Poetry and Diaries

by Hannah Piercy The 5th June 2017 was not so much ‘a fine showery morning’, as Dorothy Wordsworth says of…

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William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Wordsworth and old age

by Fred Blick Aging is intrinsic to Wordsworth’s poetry. He declared in 1800, in his Preface to the second…

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The enigma of Coleridge

Re-imagining the Wordsworths III: A host of daffodils, a host of words

Keats and Constable in Hampstead: Could they have met?

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

The Byron effect

Spring shoots and green peas: the Wordsworths and their kitchen garden

The Gravestone of John Keats: Romancing the Stone

The winners of the 2018 Wordsworth birthday poem competition

Reimagining the Wordsworths II: Poetry and Diaries

Wordsworth and old age

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