For Hillel Stavis, who first sold books part time as a high school student, there was something almost spiritual about spending time in a sanctuary of book-lined shelves. “That reverential moment when ...

There will be a reading at WordsWorth Books this Saturday, June 10, at 5 p.m., of the new book, “The Thane of Cawdor Comes to Bauxite and Other Whimsy and Wisdom From the Pen of Mike Trimble.” It’s a ...

Hillel Stavis, former proprietor of now legendary WordsWorth Books of Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., died suddenly Friday, October 20, 2023, in Eaton, N.H. He was 78. For nearly 30 years his ...

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A copy of a poetry book hailed as one of the most important in English history has been bought for £42,000 by the Wordsworth Trust in Cumbria. The second edition of Lyrical Ballads published in 1800, ...

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 ...

He wrote that the ‘human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants’. And it appears that simply reading those words by William Wordsworth prove his point.

The year 2020 will mark the 250th birth anniversary of the English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth. William Wordsworth (Photo: Wikimedia commons) The year 2020 will mark the 250th birth anniversary ...