HomeBlog The Wordsworth Blog Weekly articles from a range of guest contributors Jul18 AuthorBook The Golden Age of Russian Literature At the start of a short series of blogs on three nineteenth-century Russian novels, Sally Minogue considers their powerful ongoing… Read More Jul3 AuthorBook The Aspern Papers Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at one of Henry James’ best-known works. What does a Henry James novella and Percy Bysshe… Read More Jun10 AuthorBookNews Lord Byron 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of poet Lord Byron’s death. Sally Minogue looks at his writing and his life, and… Read More May21 AuthorBook Book of the Week: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is the classic beauty and the beast tale written by Victor Hugo, the author of that… Read More May14 AuthorBookNews Dylan Thomas, Taylor Swift, and ‘Tortured Poets’ On International Dylan Thomas Day, and as Taylor Swift name-checks Dylan Thomas on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department,… Read More May1 AuthorBook Book of the Week: Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility was Jane Austen’s first published but second written novel. Denis Hanrahan Wells takes up the story. She… Read More