Émile Legouis, a professor at the Sorbonne, was not the first scholar to realise that the young Wordsworth had had a child by a French mistress, but he was the first, in 1922, to tell the story in ...

PROFESSOR RALEIGH’S book 1 is an earnest attempt to read the works of a poet by the light of the poet’s intention. It is not a criticism, nor a commentary, nor in the usual sense of the word an ...

Break-ups had happened before of course. Henry VIII's split from the Vatican comes to mind, or Socrates' spat with the Athenian state, but this is the break-up over which we still take sides. Even ...

Perhaps not as famous as her poet brother, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth was an equally unique and compelling character.

The final home of poet William Wordsworth has been bought by the trust set up in his name. The Romantic writer lived in Rydal Mount, in Ambleside, Cumbria, from 1813 until his death in 1850 and it was ...

The impoverished descendants of poet William Wordsworth were working at his home more than a century after his family had left, research has revealed. Experts from ancestry website Findmypast looked ...