The history of the world-famous confectioner—maker of the Cadbury Creme Egg—from nineteenth-century shop to multinational brand.When John Cadbury came to Birmingham in 1824, he sold tea, coffee, and drinking chocolate in a small shop on Bull Street. Drinking chocolate was considered a healthy alternative to alcohol, something Cadbury, a Quaker, was keen to encourage. By 1879, the Cadburys were ready to make their historic move to Bournville, where they established ...

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) is one of the most popular and enduring of the English poets. His poetry is beloved for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, and its celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace. Together with his friend, the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth helped launch the romantic age in English literature. These poems demonstrate the astonishing range and beauty of Wordsworth’s work and his sustained, coher...

William Wordsworth helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, creating a diverse oeuvre of works that have influenced the course of poetry for over two centuries. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Wordsworth's complete works, with beautiful illustrations, Dorothy Wordsworth's journals and even more bonus material. (Version 3)* Beautifully illustrated with image...

Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and his friend and contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A hugely influential work, Lyrical Ballads is generally acknowledged to have started the Romantic movement in English literature—a period marked by a departure from the stiff and unapproachable poetry of earlier times, and by a focus on readable, relatable verse written in everyday language. Many of Wordsworth’s poems focus on the natural world and the d...

Wordsworth’s Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism. An autobiography in verse, it tells of his childhood in the Lake District, his student days in Cambridge, his passion for the French Revolution and his later disenchantment with it, and his personal journey to a belief in Nature as the great moral and spiritual force which shapes human life, but on which human society all too often turned its back. Subtitled ‘Growth of a Poet’s Mind’, T...

'Listen, Stranger!' Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have continued to delight readers ever since, including 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the 'Lucy' poems, 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey', 'A Slumber did my Spirit seal' and many more. Wordsworth's f...

William Wordsworth is one of the greatest poets of English Literature. This poem 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'is often considered as one of Wordsworth's greatest masterpieces. Here, he explores some of the themes that always inspired him, namely his childhood, the memories, the beauties of nature, and the human soul.In this audio book, the poem has been analysed with a brief annotation with relevant quotations from the original text. The ma...

The memoir provides an intimate, day-by-day account of their travels, beginning with their departure from the Lake District and their movement through the rugged highlands of Scotland. Dorothy’s keen eye for detail and poetic prose bring the Scottish countryside to life, portraying the natural beauty of mountains, lochs, and valleys. Her deep connection to nature, much like her brother’s, shines through in her expressive and often lyrical descriptions of the scenery.Beyond its focus on the...

The third month of our Gregorian calendar. Spring begins to delicately change the land. Colour and light begin their inexorable march to bathe the landscape around us. Temperatures subtly begin to rise, nature welcomes warmth.50 poems from the pens of our remarkable poets including Yeats, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Housman, Lowell and a plethora of others come lines and verse on the wonder of the landscape, its fauna and wildlife that amplify our moods, feelings, thoughts and desires ...

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

Nature’s year begins. Temperatures slowly rise. Green gradually becomes the dominant colour of the landscape. Rain from drenching showers to windy squalls help nourish the land. Nature has embarked on her epic symphony of the year.Each year, each season, each day is a little different from her previous work. Days lengthen as her canvas and palette grows more confident. Colour emerges from the shades of monochrome. She is at work on tasks everywhere.Naturally our classic poe...

The biography of Richard Cadbury, a son of one of the chocolate industry's founding families, who helped grow the business during the Victorian era.In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop in Bull Street in Birmingham and started to sell tea, coffee, and drinking chocolate alongside everything else. In 1831, he opened a factory and started to manufacture his own product, and by 1842 the company was selling almost thirty different types of drinking chocolate and ...