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HISTORICAL FACTS: Wordsworth - The Untold Story

Peter Gill showed theatre audiences that anywhere could be the centre of the world

The playwright and director, who has died aged 86, completed DH Lawrence’s revolution in spotlighting the stories of working people

The Guardian - UK

Why we're all drawn to colour in these dark and dreary times

Is there any greater crime than dullness?

The Canberra Times

Iran and the Revolution by Homa Katouzian review – how the Islamic Republic was born

A landmark new account of the 1979 revolution provides much needed context for current events

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Walk this way: Britain’s best hiking holidays

Inspired by the new King Charles III England Coast Path, we’re strapping on our boots and setting out for a ramble on these first-rate routes

Evening Standard

The Other Bennet Sister: this fresh take on Pride and Prejudice transforms the overlooked Mary

When Lizzy Bennet, the witty sister in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), asks: “What are men to rocks and mountains?” she is thinking about ways of understanding self and world through the notion of the sublime.

The Conversation

Poem of the week: from Quatrains by Ralph Waldo Emerson

These epigrammatic verses compress the great essayist’s philosophy with a beauty that echoes Keats and might have pleased Wordsworth

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Why JMW Turner is still Britain’s best artist, 250 years on

The revered artist conjured groundbreaking scenes of gods, legends and lost civilisations, but, more than anything, his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like that of no artist before or since

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Freezing the Lake District in Wordsworth’s time means we miss damage done to it

Letter: Andy Massey responds to an article on the new Wordsworth Way trail in the Lakes

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Xiaolu Guo: ‘Write less, in order to write stronger’

The author and film-maker on why she was inspired to reimagine Moby-Dick in her new novel, her love of Coleridge and returning to the ‘addictive power of fiction’

The Guardian - UK

Now gen AI has stopped telling us to glue cheese to pizza, it’s bland as a margherita

Despite fewer silly glitches, you now get an executive summary of the world, with all interesting complications removed

The Guardian - UK

Radical struggles and revolution: The book unearthing the subversive history of Paradise Lost

THE READING LIST: Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes Claire Allfree

The Independent UK

Tragic shipwreck off Dorset linked to Wordsworth family granted protection status

Earl of Abergavenny’s sinking is one of UK’s worst maritime disasters

Evening Standard

Ecologist taking on MoD to protect skylarks says he has faced threats and assault

Campaigners say rare grassland on former firing range in Essex was mowed, killing the birds and their chicks that nest on the ground

The Guardian - UK

Could The Beatles become famous today?

"The number of amazing people who could be spectacularly successful, is really, really high," Sunstein says

Salon

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Literary Subfields, Ecocriticism, and the Eclipse of the Humanities

Len Gutkin in Liberties on the decline of the humanities.

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Byron: A Life in Ten Letters review – dispatches from a lusty life

Andrew Stauffer conveys the vigour and pace of the poet’s escapades with brio, but stumbles when he suggests Byron anticipated modern celebrity

The Independent UK

Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times

The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to…

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Lifescapes by Ann Wroe review – a master biographer chases the essence of life

The Economist’s obituarist sheds light on her belief in the sublime – and her intense, sometimes baffling inner life – in this beautiful and brave book

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The Conversation

Guide to the classics: Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey – a dense, strange journey through addiction

Drugs are nothing new. As researchers Russil Durrant and Jo Thakker tell us in their 2003 book Substance Use Abuse, drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, opium and cannabis have been used for thousands of years throughout the world. They also show we have known about addiction for a long time…

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How poetry can help address the climate crisis

I want to leap up at the three-nation parley In Whitehorse, Yukon, to warn them the radionuclides absorbed from the lichen they live on may kill them if they don’t drown in droves in crossings flooded out by hydroelectric stations, or slowly starve to death behind oil pipelines that posit…

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Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong review – back to the garden

The former nun argues that reconnecting with the spiritual side of nature could help us contend with the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

Long gone, but speaking clearly to our age – Shelley, the poet of moral and political corruption

Friday marked the bicentary of the great radical writer who wanted culture to spark the imaginations of ‘ordinary’ people

Liverpool Echo

Horse Power: Campanelle can win on the final day of Royal Ascot 2022

American raider can take the Group One feature on day five in Berkshire while Popmaster, Noble Truth, Broome, Knightswood, Wordsworth, Alfred Munnings and Quick Change may also be Saturday scorers

The Guardian - UK

‘You couldn’t get closer to spring if you tried’: readers’ favourite Easter day trips for families

From blustery beaches to intrepid hikes and fairytale forests, here’s where to fire up young minds during the Easter holidays

Newslaundry

Can we separate the art from the artist? Sexual abuse allegations against Nagarjun revive the old debate

In a November 2018 piece for New Statesman, writer Eleanor Margolis wondered whether she would read Roald Dahl’s fiction to her children. Dahl, considered one of the most influential children’s fiction writers of the 20th century, had made antisemitic remarks and was seen to have justified the Holocaust. Despite her…

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