TESTAMENT: Hello and welcome to the Bitesize poetry podcast. I'm Testament, a writer, rapper and poet, and in this series I'm talking poetry. In this episode we're comparing 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen ...

This article seeks to give an account of the emergence of late modern subjectivity as it can be glimpsed in the workings of Wordsworth's long autobiographical poem The Prelude. The theoretical ...

The English language bristles with wonderful quotes, which are often detached from their poetic settings. The column will look at some this week, starting with Wordsworth’s “Bliss was it in that dawn ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Wordsworth was not unusual among Romantic poets for his enthusiastic support of the French Revolution, but he stands ...

Sigmund Freud, “The Moses of Michelangelo,” in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 24 vol., ed. James Strachey (London: The Hogarth Press, 1955), vol. 13, “Totem ...

William Wordsworth, born 250 years ago this month, was castigated by William Blake as a ‘heathen philosopher’ for his celebration of nature’s power. The great Romantic poet subsequently revised his ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, on April 7, 1770, the English poet William Wordsworth was born. We are also close to the anniversary of his death, which occurred 80 years later on April 23, 1850.

IN THIS SEASON of cancelled parties, the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth will also go unmarked in public. Celebrations of the English poet, born on April 7th 1770, should have bloomed ...

Robert Burns was not the only idealistic British poet to be initially entranced by the French Revolution. His younger contemporary William Wordsworth coined one of the great quotes of the era about it ...