poetry and money

Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on February 22nd, 2011 (so almost 16 years ago). In 1813, poet William Wordsworth, tired of being the starving artist, took a government job as stamp distributor in Westmorland. Shelley, among others (Browning wrote of Wordsworth’s decision… Read more