A prominent clergyman, educator, and religious polemicist, Christopher Wordsworth was a writer of prodigious energy and learning. In published accounts of his travels, which make up only a small part of his complete works, he brought to Victorian...

THERE WAS something of the Scholar Gipsy about Christopher Wordsworth, who contributed weekly to the literary pages of the Observer and Guardian for several decades up to the early Nineties. A distinguished and versatile critic with an aphoristic style, he reviewed novels, crime, works...

Possibilities for Wordsworth IN 1950, WHEN THE CENTENARY OF WORDSWORTH'S DEATH was celebrated at Princeton, one of the speakers, Lionel Trilling, stated what he took to be a perception current at the time that Wordsworth was "not an intellectual possibility, not attractive." "Intellectual...