(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jonathan Bate, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION) Musical performances ...

All this year I've been highlighting poets from the Renaissance to today. Last month's column focused on the 18th century and Alexander Pope. By and large, the poets from the 16th to the 18th ...

It is 250 years since the birth of the great English poet William Wordsworth. A lover of nature, his poetry abounds with images of lambs, flowers in full bloom, windswept crags and woodland scenes.

Show at National Trust’s Wordsworth House and Garden in Cumbria to mark 250th anniversary of poet’s birth More than two centuries ago there was cruel and rude gossip about how startlingly close the ...

IN THIS SEASON of cancelled parties, the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth will also go unmarked in public. Celebrations of the English poet, born on April 7th 1770, should have bloomed ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Musical performances usually happen in concert halls or clubs, but famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma is exploring a new venue: U.S. national parks. In a project called Our Common Nature, Ma is ...