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All this year I've been highlighting poets from the Renaissance to today. Last month's column focused on the 18th century and Alexander Pope. By and large, the poets from the 16th to the 18th ...

Sigmund Freud, “The Moses of Michelangelo,” in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 24 vol., ed. James Strachey (London: The Hogarth Press, 1955), vol. 13, “Totem ...

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.

I think Wordsworth’s 19th century poem would not be out of place today in a Nature Conservancy or National Wildlife’s magazine. The world is more than we can handle, he writes. We keep messing things ...

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 ...

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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.