As a poet, Sutphen knows not to let moments of ... He likened her devotion to William Wordsworth’s “’to the sonnet’s scanty plot of ground’ – something like a vegetable garden, a ...

A white marble life size figure of poet William Wordsworth is now placed next to Shakespeare's memorial and below the bust of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. The figure is ...

Curator Dr Susan Jenkins shares more about the lives and poetry of nine Poet Laureates who are buried or memorialised in Poets' Corner. The official post of ‘Poet Laureate’ (laureate meaning crowned ...

The East India Company ship was captained by John Wordsworth, the brother of renowned romantic poet William Wordsworth. It was launched in 1796 in Northfleet, Kent and is rare as it was one of ...

Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Rossetti and Zephaniah have all followed. Now, Poet Laureate and Yorkshireman Simon Armitage has determined that the discipline of verse composition should have a proper p ...