HomeBlog The Wordsworth Blog Weekly articles from a range of guest contributors Jun1 AuthorBook The Mayor of Casterbridge ‘Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies’. Thomas Hardy’s novels of rural… Read More May18 AuthorBookNewsPoetry Sumer is icumen in – finally. Sally Minogue reflects on evocations of Summer by some Wordsworth authors. ‘Sumer is icumen in –/ Lhude sing! cuccu.’ Not… Read More May11 AuthorBook Elizabeth Gaskell and ‘Lois the Witch’ The name Elizabeth Gaskell probably conjures up associations with her more well known social realist novels such as Mary Barton… Read More May2 AuthorBookNews Great Expectations: reduced imaginations Sally Minogue and Stephen Carver give a final overview of the BBC One adaptation of Dickens’s novel. The first episode… Read More Apr27 AuthorBook Desperate Remedies Desperate Remedies is the first published novel written by Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) and as such is a wonderful… Read More Apr20 AuthorBook Faust The basic premise of the story of Faust is generally well known. It concerns a magician who agrees to surrender… Read More
