(They’re also, not for nothing, both named after fictional ghost girls: “Lucy Gray” for the William Wordsworth poem and “Lenore” for the Edgar Allen Poe poem.) Lenore Dove Baird was ...

Sunrise on the Reaping included a meaningful reference to Lucy Gray Baird that carefully adds to the mystery and tragedy of her Hunger Games fate.

Time was when, if I revealed I taught the poetry of Wordsworth ... Sex did not have to be on the agenda. Lucy Newlyn’s new book about the famous Wordsworth siblings assumes they were bonded ‘in a ...

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 ...