Arts & Entertainment 2000 Best place to read poetry Restland Funeral Home The World is Too Much With Us. Wordsworth could have had lovely Dallas in mind when he penned his famous early 19th ...

Britain on Friday awarded the role of national poet laureate to Carol Ann Duffy — the first woman to hold a post that has been filled by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes ...

Wordsworth was, it's no surprise to learn, a voracious reader, spending his teens reading Shakespeare, Cervantes, Fielding, history, biography and – naturally – poetry.

The Lucy poems were evoked by stress in Wordsworth's relationships with Dorothy and Coleridge. Four were written in Germany, where Wordsworth was forced to separate from Coleridge because of the added ...