"Michael", the final poem in Lyrical Ballads, begins quietly with a line that is nearly a promise and not quite an invitation: "If from the public way you turn your steps ..." The poem goes on to ...

All this year I've been highlighting poets from the Renaissance to today. Last month's column focused on the 18th century and Alexander Pope. By and large, the poets from the 16th to the 18th ...

Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth, English scholar: born London 28 November 1932; Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford 1958-80 (Emeritus); Lecturer in English Literature, Oxford University 1958-80, University ...

Toussaint, the most unhappy Man of Men! Whether the rural Milk-maid by her cow Sing in thy hearing, or thy head be now Pillowed in some deep dungeon’s earless den;--O miserable Chieftain! where and ...

A revised draft of a romantic poem by William Wordsworth is to go on display. The Wordsworth Trust paid £9,000 for the copy of the White Doe of Rylstone, which contains amendments in the handwriting ...

Wordsworth Editions has released a revised and expanded second edition of Aleister Crowley’s The Drug & Other Stories. The book brings together 54 of Crowley's stories with "extensive" editorial ...

The Making Of Poetry: Coleridge, The Wordsworths And Their Year Of Marvels Adam Nicolson William Collins £25 For just over a year, two of ...