We, who are alive, hardly know when we are happy. We are always looking ahead, thinking, or at least hoping, that “the best is yet to be.“ When we ponder and judge the lives of dead men, we say to ...

About a year ago a little volume appeared called “The Poetry of Dorothy Wordsworth.” Of course, Dorothy Wordsworth wrote no poetry, although her brother and Coleridge lifted many of her observations ...

Literature is supposed to be a serious, solitary profession. Then why were William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their best friend Samuel Coleridge having so much fun together in the English Lake ...

Imagine living in a "vortex of poetry" — that's how biographer Frances Wilson describes life in England's Lake District. The year was 1800, and William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth ...

IT HAS long been recognized that Dorothy Wordsworth, who never wrote a line for publication in her life, had a gift for expression which in its smaller and more limited way was as fine as the more ...

Kathleen Winter is a rare talent, a writer whose prose is rife with compassion and emotional intelligence, equally able to convincingly give voice to a misunderstood historical figure or to, yes, even ...

In these days of literary trend-chasing, when every publishing season yields yet another widely acclaimed “Voice of a New Generation,” it seems little short of remarkable that the most influential ...

Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain is a popular place to climb, both as part of the Three Peaks Challenge and for walkers in search of the sublime Lake District scenery. But it wasn’t always ...