The day need not be measured by tasks but by experiences—reading a line of poetry, watching light fall differently across the ...

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Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

19:54, Wed, Apr 2, 2025 Updated: 19:54, Wed, Apr 2, 2025 The final Lake District home of Romantic 'Daffodils' poet William Wordsworth has been put up for sale for a staggering £2.5m by heartbroken his ...

Until recently, fans of William Wordsworth could visit his final home, Rydal Mount and Gardens, nestled in the heart of England’s green and beautiful Lake District. Renowned as one of the most ...

Lately, the opening lines from a Wordsworth poem keep running through my mind -- “The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers…” This reflects my ...

Lucy Gray Baird, the protagonist in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is named after a poem from 1799.

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When a farmer came across human remains while digging in his garden in a village in France in 2013, little did he know that he had discovered the body of a World War One soldier and descendant of poet ...

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 ...