Wordsworth has lately stridden back into fashion as a pioneer ecologist, a “green” visionary. For him, nature is a single, interconnected system.

Wordsworth the child, his oftenest quoted line to the contrary notwithstanding, was not in the least Wordsworthian, but a rather boisterous, play-loving country lad, like any other.

For William Wordsworth, Nature seemed to be at once outside him and to belong permanently in the depths of his soul; for his younger sister Dorothy the external world was brilliant but constantly ...

From 2005: Adam Kirsch considers William Wordsworth’s work through the lens of a central event in the poet’s life—a visit to France during the French Revolution.

Wordsworth’s masterpiece, “The Prelude,” an endlessly revised unrhymed poem of 13 books that was never published in his lifetime, is often called the finest 19th-century English autobiography.

THE important question is surely not whether Wordsworth should now and again have scoffed at men of science with or without provocation, but whether the poems as a whole suggest that he felt at ...

Wordsworth has there staged a type so wonderfully that he stands out and becomes a great figure in literature — just as, in sculpture or painting, rough types of labor by Meunier or Jean ...