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We have absorbed so much of the romantic vision — the sublimity of mountains, the mesmerizing moments alone in nature, the belief in childhood innocence, the faith (however tarnished these days) in ...

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 ...

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.

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.

One of Wordsworth's manuscripts and portraits go on display in South Korea and China.

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 ...