WILLIAM HAZLITT described the act of painting as the purest ... gave lasting form to experiences that so easily became dissected, dissolving apparitions in poetry or prose. This was its attraction for ...

‘For thou wert there’, says Coleridge, wonderingly, in the lines he addressed to Wordsworth after hearing him recite The Prelude – the ‘there’ in question being the Revolution in France. Wordsworth ...

Anyone seeking an approachable, illustrated introduction to Blake’s achievement should take this book into the city that Blake reconfigured as the mythic Jerusalem of his poetry ... and Wordsworth.

Like Wordsworth ... William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love by Philip Hoare By the end of Josephine Baker’s life, she had become the first black woman to appear in a film, a civil rights leader and ...

ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP via Getty; Shutterstock King Charles and Queen Camilla are celebrating 20 years of marriage on April 9 Prince Harry wrote in his memoir, Spare, that he and Prince William once ...

Prince William is the eldest son of Charles and his first wife Diana, Princess of Wales. In his early life, he grew up at Kensington Palace with his younger brother Prince Harry, where he still ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

The author and poet Michael Rosen introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The space on the page The 'space' is a ‘friend’ to whom Michael Rosen can tell anything.

Their names are William Michael Rossetti and Lucy Madox Brown. Angela Thirlwell, a lecturer at Birkbeck College (and the mother of Adam, author of the novel Politics), has made the catch, and her ...

Why are the Journals of Fanny Kemble not at least as well known as those of Dorothy Wordsworth? Because Dorothy can be viewed ... a civil rights leader and a chevalier of the Legion d’honneur. Lucy ...