William Wordsworth

...and art influenced one another. The society's journal, the Philosophical Transactions, was read and admired by poets like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Today, the two worlds rarely meet. Moore said one of the...

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...home, Boyd Tonkin looks at nature writing in a crisis From a poet's refuge to a national nightmare: floods in the main street of William Wordsworth's home town of Cockermouth, Cumbria One flood does not make an apocalypse. Still, the...

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...poet William Wordsworth, escaped destruction by inches when floods swept the Lake District. Wordsworth House, the birthplace of William Wordsworth, was saved from complete disaster Photo: Getty Images Volunteers and staff battled to...

In this article: Wordsworth House, Cockermouth, Cumbria, and National Trust

Navigation - link to other main sections from here Volunteers defy flooding to save William Wordsworth's 17th-century home Wordsworth House, where the Romantic poet spent his childhood, is now adorned by a notice that states "dangerous...

In this article: Romantic poet, National Trust, John Wordsworth, Cockermouth, and Wordsworth House

...not to be too downbeat - after all, the river that had created so much chaos was the same funnel of water that Wordsworth so adored. "Wordsworth loved that river," said Barton. It was that building - a water line visible around its lower...

In this article: Cockermouth, Dog, and National Trust

...kilometers) northwest of London, lies at the junction of the Cocker and Derwent rivers and is known as the birthplace of poet William Wordsworth. The flood was "of biblical proportions," local House of Commons lawmaker Tony Cunningham...

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...England, and two in Scotland. A witness in the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth, birthplace of poet William Wordsworth, told BBC radio he saw the water level rise rapidly from his top floor window. "Within a very short space of time people...

In this article: Britain, Met Office, England, Cumbria, Cockermouth, and Ireland