poets

Romantic poets including William Wordsworth were tough outdoor types

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The Rime of the Ancient Mountaineer: Romantic poets including William Wordsworth were tough, outdoor types who climbed to keep fit Author claims romantic poets such as John Keats were tough outdoorsy types  Simon Bainbridge says male poets were ‘very keen to prove their masculinity’ Poet William Wordsowth scaled Helvellyn in the Lake District at the age … Read more

When Coleridge found Wordsworth in bed with the love of his life the poets fell out bitterly

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BOOK OF THE WEEK RADICAL WORDSWORTH     by Jonathan Bate (William Collins, £25, 608 pp) The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent Christmas Day 1806 with his close friend William Wordsworth, together with Wordsworth’s wife Mary, her sister Sara Hutchinson and Wordsworth’s own sister, Dorothy. Two days later, Coleridge bolted from the house. Taking refuge in the … Read more