HomeBlog The Wordsworth Blog Weekly articles from a range of guest contributors 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 Feb19 AuthorBook When Poe Met Dickens In the United States, one of the first – if not the first – critics to discover the talented new… Read More