Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...

His most well-known poems include To a Mouse ... with his work having inspired generations of Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His musical compositions ...

William Wordsworth wrote in his Tintern Abbey ... Peter Gabriel wrote a song about Anne Sexton once and described her writing that way, as wearing “your inside out.” Peter hears the midnight ...

On January 25, the birthday of its national poet, Scotland celebrates Burns Night with a traditional Scottish meal washed down with a warming dram of whisky ...

Crisscrossed by tracks and studded with thorns, the Quantocks had lured and inspired the poets during their marvellous ... As furze bloomed brightly on Longstone Hill, Coleridge and Wordsworth began ...

In his short poem ‘My Heart Leaps Up’, Wordsworth says that when he was a child ... due to come up in the place as a ‘Jungle University’; obviously, he was inspired to coin that fond nickname for the ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

A Scottish mansion where William Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott are believed to have smoked opium has been put up for sale. Barony House is situated in the Midlothian village of Lasswade near ...

Then I turn to the poem on the next page and the story disappears. So, as we write poems, it’s important to remember that we’re really telling these stories of a moment. The question we should ...