little did he know that he had discovered the body of a World War One soldier and descendant of poet William Wordsworth. Artefacts such as a scrap of uniform, a pocket watch and a whistle were ...

Robert Southey was appointed poet laureate in 1813, through the influence of his acquaintance, Sir Walter Scott. He was close friends with several poets including Samuel Taylor Coleridge (who became ...

Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney ...

A 200-year-old ship wreckage from one of the UK’s worst maritime disasters and captained by the brother of the poet William Wordsworth has been issued protection by the government. In 1805 ...

HELEN MORT: It is, and it's part of a much longer poem, The Prelude, which Wordsworth was writing and changing and going back to for about 50 years, I think. So it's this event that he kept ...

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a revered poet in the age of Romanticism, the revolutionary period whose ideas and values - democracy, individual rights, our relationship with nature and the ...

The East India Company ship was captained by John Wordsworth, the brother of renowned romantic poet William Wordsworth. It was launched in 1796 in Northfleet, Kent and is rare as it was one of ...

On World Poetry Day, actor Siddhant Chaturvedi remembered writing his first poem when he was 15. It was his own version of "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth.