Beloved Romantic poet William Wordsworth was the first "influencer" to champion the Lake District and call for its ...

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 ...

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 ...