Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

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A tourist has complained about a recent visit to Rydal Mount which was the home of renowned Cumbrian poet William Wordsworth ...

This week the Palestine Festival of Literature, known as Palfest, announced that over 1,000 writers have signed on to a literary boycott of Israel. In a public letter, these writers declared that ...

Priests have blessed armies and weapons, and sanctioned executions and massacres, but never so widely as in Putin’s Russia. Donald Rayfield on the history of Russian Orthodoxy. Are children being ...

Are children being burned out by endless exams? Or does rising inequality lie behind the mental health crisis in young people today? @Samfr investigates. Sam Freedman - The Kids Aren’t Alright Sam ...

One of 300 gold coins made to mark the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth is currently on sale for almost £3,500. The £5 gold proof coin, available on the All Gold Coins website, is one ...

Augustus the Strong’s name has long been a byword for dissipation. Yet he was also a great patron of the arts, creating in Dresden perhaps the finest Baroque city in Europe. Ritchie Robertson examines ...

Augustus the Strong’s name has long been a byword for dissipation. Yet he was also a great patron of the arts, creating in Dresden perhaps the finest Baroque city in Europe. Ritchie Robertson examines ...

Whitman’s line is a claim less about his poetry than about the man standing behind it, and one whole wing of literary theory would refuse to admit the distinction any viability in the first place. The ...

But behind the more superficial hallmarks of crumbling buildings, moody anti-heroes and complex heroines, Gothic literature has had a fascinating history and evolution. Though it originated in the 18 ...

Coleridge was critical of the literary taste of his contemporaries ... he separated from his wife Sara in 1808, quarrelled with Wordsworth in 1810, lost part of his annuity in 1811, and put himself ...