From the hush of medieval lullabies to striking poems about Grenfell, great authors know how to deploy the power of silence
On a snowy Sunday morning in February 1808, the poet William Wordsworth was …
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William Wordsworth's Lake District home is saved after his descendants put it on the market for £2.5million ⊕⊕
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
The home has been bought by the Wordsworth Trust in a move that will preserve the 16th century property as a public attraction.
27 days ago
On the trail of the Romantics in the Welsh borders ⊕⊕
The ruins of Tintern Abbey have inspired artists and poets. Now, the restoration of a historic inn has given visitors a perfect base for exploring this corner of Monmouthshire
Standing in Tintern Abbe…
64 days ago
Poem of the week: To Wordsworth by Percy Bysshe Shelley ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The radical young poet’s backhanded tribute to the older writer is a stern judgment on his lapsed political idealism
To Wordsworth
Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know
That things depart which never…
6 months ago
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan review – the limits of liberalism ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
A century from now, a literature scholar pieces together a picture of our times in a novel that quietly compels us to consider the moral consequences of global catastrophe
The sheer Englishness of Ian…
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