Robert Bridges OM is the only medical graduate (he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1900) to have held the office of Poet Laureate. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and St Bartholomew's Hospital he practised as a casualty physician at his teaching hospital (where he made a series of highly critical remarks of the Victorian medical establish...

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This article will consider the extent and nature of celebrity Poet Laureate William Wordsworth, who died in 1850. Ostensibly most famous English poet alive that year, on his death 23 April 1850, Wordsworth had been for just over seven years actively producing verse since 1793. Shortly after death, longest poem, now considered a masterpiece autobiographical epic, The Prelude, was published; one ...

Abstract Although they never met and exchanged only one letter during their lifetime, Danish-German poet literary critic Heinrich Wilhelm Gerstenberg German theologian, philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder took great interest in each other’s work. Indeed, the late 1760s Gerstenberg’s writings on literature, history translation arguably had an immense impact Herder, providing him with some of maj...