HomeBlog The Wordsworth Blog Weekly articles from a range of guest contributors Apr22 AuthorBook ‘Avay vith melincholly’: The Story Behind ‘The Pickwick Papers’ Stephen Carver rediscovers the pleasures of reading Dickens’ first novel. The Pickwick Papers Dickens had only just celebrated his 24th… Read More Apr10 AuthorBook Elizabeth Gaskell and ‘Wives and Daughters’ Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at Elizabeth Gaskell’s final novel Elizabeth Gaskell died in 1865 leaving behind a wide range of… Read More Apr4 AuthorBook The Japanese Macbeth Dr Stephen Carver looks at one of the most memorable adaptations of Macbeth, Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 film Kumonosu-jō, best known as Throne of… Read More Mar26 AuthorBook Book of the Week: The Brothers Karamazov After an insomniac encounter with a radio adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov, Sally Minogue revisits Fyodor Dostoevsky’s last novel. I’ve… Read More Mar6 AuthorBook Book of the Week: Pride and Prejudice When I first read Pride and Prejudice as a moody fourteen-year-old, I was far from impressed. I had little interest… Read More Feb26 AuthorBookNewsPoetry Blogs ‘Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea’ As we publish Dylan Thomas’s Collected Poems 1934-1952, Sally Minogue reflects on the riches to be found there. Most of… Read More