William Wordsworth, a key figure of the Romantic movement, believed nature profoundly shaped human character and imagination.

While it was Percy Shelley who argued that poets were the “unacknowledged legislators of the world”, William Wordsworth was the poet, according to Jonathan Bate, who actually transformed it. After the ...

Imagine living in a "vortex of poetry" — that's how biographer Frances Wilson describes life in England's Lake District. The year was 1800, and William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth ...

A quote by William Wordsworth reminds us that wisdom is found in humility, not ambition. Wordsworth, born in England's Lake District, found inspiration in nature and ordinary people. His life and work ...

Scientists, psychologists and English academics at Liverpool University have found that reading the works of the Bard and other classical writers has a beneficial effect on the mind, catches the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Until recently, fans of William Wordsworth could visit his final home, Rydal Mount and Gardens, nestled in the heart of England’s green and beautiful Lake District. Renowned as one of the most ...