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William Wordsworth

April 2024

  • Professor Corinne Fowler in Grasmere, along the route of the 'East Indian Company Walk’

    ‘I’m not afraid of anybody now’: the woman who revealed links between National Trust houses and slavery – and was vilified

    Prof Corinne Fowler’s report into colonial history sparked a furore about ‘wokeness’ and heritage. We join her on one of the routes from her book of rural walks that highlight how all our lives are entwined with colonialism

March 2024

  • William and Dorothy Wordsworth’s former home in Cumbria, Dove Cottage.

    All Before Me by Esther Rutter review – the healing power of place and poetry

    Filled with fascinating potted histories, this memoir of a year spent at Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage following a breakdown is wonderfully revivifying

October 2023

  • Young woman sleeping in bed beside the window.

    The last word
    ‘A painful absence all of the time’: the best descriptions of loneliness in literature

    The last word, our series about emotions in books, focuses on depictions of isolation this month, from a memoir of grief to Sam Selvon’s Windrush chronicle

September 2023

  • Painting of François-Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture by George De Baptiste 1875.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: To Toussaint Louverture by William Wordsworth

  • Piercefield House, now in ruins, inspired the poetry of William Wordsworth.

    Welsh mansion that inspired Wordsworth and Coleridge on the verge of collapse

August 2023

  • The Earl of Abergavenny off Southsea, painted by Thomas Luny.

    Grieving Wordsworth found solace in poignant shipwreck treasure after brother’s death

    When the Romantic poet’s younger brother John died at sea, marine artefacts helped him bear the loss, research reveals

November 2022

  • The view of the River Lune from the churchyard in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria

    Ruskin’s ‘loveliest’ view under threat in Kirkby Lonsdale

    Tourist spot made famous by Ruskin, Turner and Wordsworth may be washed away if £1m is not found for repairs

October 2022

  • Allan Bank at Grasmere in sunshine under dark skies and Helm Crag, Lake District, Cumbria<br>DJC3R6 Allan Bank at Grasmere in sunshine under dark skies and Helm Crag, Lake District, Cumbria

    From Romantics to 21st century radicals: Coleridge, Shelley and the roots of communal living

  • Manchester participants in the Refuge from the Ravens project.

    ‘Remixed’ version of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads highlights 21st-century poverty

December 2021

  • John Hannah and Emily Woof as William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the film Pandaemonium (2000)

    A seasonal celebration of Dorothy Wordsworth

  • Dorothy Wordsworth, sister of the poet William Wordsworth.

    The Guardian view on Dorothy Wordsworth: a rare achievement

November 2021

  • William Blake’s cottage

    The Guardian view on William Blake’s cottage: don’t let it crumble

    Editorial: Artists’ homes are precious for the things they tell us about the lives and times of those who worked in them

August 2021

  • The sun rising over Red Tarn, seen from the top of Helvellyn.

    Country diary
    Country diary: everyone is silent as the solar deity emerges

    Helvellyn, Lake District: There is a kind of ritual in the way people watch sunrises and sunsets, and a shared understanding

July 2021

  • Portrait of Charles William Lambton by Thomas Lawrence

    National Gallery to buy Thomas Lawrence’s ‘Red Boy’ for £9.3m

    Sentimental toffee-tin favourite was first painting on a UK postage stamp but has divided opinion since 1825

June 2021

  • Side Pike light<br>Morning light hitting Side Pike, and across to the Langdale Pikes and fells. Giving the feel of a Jurassic landscape.

    Historic walking trails
    We retired to the Lake District, to climb mountains steeped in history

    In an extract from her new book, the historian traces how her corner of Cumbria was shaped by neolithic axe makers, Wordsworth and Victorian clergy

November 2020

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Diversity of thought, Shelley and the status quo

  • A lot to catch up with … a tower of books in the library of Prague.

    'It had been on my shelf for years': readers share their lockdown reads

October 2020

  • This file photo taken on June 24, 2020 shows a pedestrian walking past public service announcement posters in Melbourne amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, negating a conspiracy that 5G telecommunications technology causes the coronavirus. - As Australians tire of the long slog to curb coronavirus, an unlikely mix of B-list celebrities, “wellness” experts and social media influencers are finding fertile ground for sowing disinformation. (Photo by William WEST / AFP) / TO GO WITH Health-virus-misinformation-Australia,FOCUS by Andrew Beatty, Andrew Leeson, Johnny Lieu and Tania Lee (Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)

    Steven Poole's word of the week
    No, Covid-19 isn't a 'plandemic'

  • The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare attributed to a little-known artist named John Taylor

    The literary beauty of regional accents

July 2020

  • The Charles Dickens Museum in Doughty Street, London

    Back to life: literary museums are reopening amid uncertain future

    The homes of writers including Jane Austen and the Brontës have been acutely hit by coronavirus but with public support and government help they are opening their doors again
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