lyrical ballads Archives - Wordsworth Grasmere

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…

scratch7th April 2015

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…

scratch13th August 2014

William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Psychology and mental disorder in Wordsworth's poetry

By Jonathan Kerr In 1800, William Wordsworth offers a bold and, at the time, deeply controversial claim about poetry. In…

scratch6th May 2014