William Wordsworth

The enthusiastic review by J. C. Squire was not entirely welcome to VSW , since she regarded Squire as a silly old ass and all that. She feared being relegated to the category of...

The title phrase opens one of the best-known poems by scholar and poet Francis William Bourdillon . GHS quotes a stanza from it, along with other, more canonical poets from Ovid through Milton and Wordsworth

Though AS disliked Samuel Johnson, many of her literary opinions were conservative. She still loved Ossian in 1796, when the texts were known to be forgeries. On 24 August 1807 (despite her admiration for Robert Southey

She was too shy to move in literary circles, though she did meet several writers who called on her, including Sarah Austin and Sir Charles Trevelyan . With each of them she felt uncomfortable, as...

On the last day of their expedition, ES visited William Wordsworth and his family at Rydal Mount. ES found the visit awkward, though she appreciated Wordsworth's kindness.

Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth , William Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Thomas Holcroft , Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth .

The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...

ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning .

On this trip LHS added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , Samuel Rogers , Anna Maria Hall and her husband , and Jane and Thomas Carlyle

Edgar Allan Poe , reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS did too much borrowing: from Hannah More , William Cowper , William Wordsworth , and Byron . Critic Emily Stipes Watts

Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , and Thomas Carlyle .

CS met Helen Maria Williams during her brief visit to revolutionary France. She provided an introduction to Williams for William Wordsworth (who had in fact met or perhaps merely seen her already) before he too...

Wordsworth chose Smith's sonnets, with Milton 's and his own, as domestic reading on Christmas Eve 1802. Thirty years later Coleridge spoke of the personal or egotistical elegiac form as standing at the heart of...

By mid-August 1793 Smith had written what was probably a poem called Tintern Abbey. If it was indeed a poem, it preceded Wordsworth 's more famous composition of this name by five years.

These essays are a paradox: colloquial and popular in their enthusiasms, effortlessly learned in their handling. Smith is highly personal as she recounts her cultural discoveries: of a biracial chareacter claiming liberty of creative freedom...