Quote of the Day invites readers to reflect on how they engage with ideas, traditions and information. Rather than promoting ...

Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World, by Jonathan Bate. Yale University Press. 608 pages. $35. William Wordsworth: A Life, by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press. 688 pages. $32.95.

WORDSWORTH’S early life presents a remarkable parallel to the position of magnanimous youth to-day. His world, like ours, was a scene of conflict between discredited institutions and a new spirit, ...

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 ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, on April 7, 1770, the English poet William Wordsworth was born. We are also close to the anniversary of his death, which occurred 80 years later on April 23, 1850.

MR. SCRUTON'S comments, with which I am in entire agreement, afford me an opportunity of making good an omission from my article. I omitted to state that my notes were limited to Wordsworth's poetical ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, on April 7, 1770, the English poet William Wordsworth was born. We are also close to the anniversary of his death, which occurred 80 years later on April 23, 1850.