It was at Rydal Mount that Wordsworth truly settled, building a ‘writing hut’ and extensively landscaping the grounds to his ...

Beloved Romantic poet William Wordsworth was the first "influencer" to champion the Lake District and call for its conservation, a new exhibition claims. Wordsworth penned his Guide to the Lakes ...

Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that advances in AI, biotechnology, and medicine could allow humans to achieve immortality by 2030. Kurzweil's concept of 'escape velocity' suggests medical ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

or else as intimations of the coming wrath of heaven’s gracious ones. All presidents — including Donald Trump — genuflect before this altar, and most of us implicitly regard any policy that ...

She wants to live life to the fullest; he wants to live forever. Sophie and Martin are at the 2012 Gordon Research Conference ...

But perhaps his least-known endeavor was as a poet. Kilmer was a writer of poetry for much of his adult life, having begun dabbling in the form in his twenties as he studied at The Juilliard ...

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A direct descendant of William Wordsworth has spoken of his sadness of having to put the poet's house up for sale. Christopher Wordsworth Andrew says that he and his brother Simon Bennie have ...

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...