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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | E. H. Young | Quite unlike her later books, this one features a solitary heroine who takes a Wordsworth
ian delight in nature. |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Yonge | Her vindication of unmarried women drawing intellectual and social authority from their relationship with the Church of England
brings to mind Mary Astell
. She appears to have learned from women writers like Sarah Trimmer |
| Textual Features | Ann Yearsley | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Yearsley | Elizabeth Isabella Spence
, reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY
as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Summer Excursions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 71 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
kept (with decreasing fullness) her earliest surviving journal, written at Alfoxden, the second home she had shared with her brother William
. Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan. 1: 3, 16 and n2 |
| Author summary | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
is chiefly remembered for her Romantic-period journals, especially for her descriptions of the detail of nature, landscape, growth, and seasonal change. The journals, however, are equally remarkable for observing the doings of people: both... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wordsworth | Dorothy's brothers were, in order of age, Richard
, William
, John
, and Christopher
. Richard became a lawyer, John a naval officer (who died when the ship he commanded ran aground and sank... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wordsworth | From early childhood Dorothy had been especially close to her brother William
. When in 1794 she was at last able to live with him, the reunion was emotional and they both felt that their... |
| Instructor | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
| Travel | Dorothy Wordsworth | Though she is so closely associated with places in the English West Country and the Lake District, DW
was a keen traveller. Her first trip abroad, from London via Hamburg to Goslar in Germany... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth
's Description of the Scenery of the English Lakes appeared in April 1810 as an introduction to the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson
's Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire. It included a... |
| Travel | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
took the first of many walking tours with her brother William
: from Kendal to Grasmere (eighteen miles) and from Grasmere to Keswick (fifteen miles). Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press. 1: 243 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Wordsworth | This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW
, for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost... |
| Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
and her brother William
arrived at midnight at Racedown Lodge in northern Dorset, a house offered to them rent-free by West India merchant John Pretor Pinney
, whose sons had become friendly with... |
Timeline
1775: The first, posthumous, printing of Thomas...
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1775
The first, posthumous, printing of Thomas Gray
's sonnet on the death of Richard West
caused a literary sensation; it laid the foundation for Charlotte Smith
's Elegiac Sonnets, 1784, and the revival of the sonnet form.
1791: William Gifford, in his satire The Baviad,...
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1791
William Gifford
, in his satire The Baviad, became the first to attack the Della Cruscan body of poetry which notably included work by Robert Merry
and Hannah Cowley
.
29 January 1793: William Wordsworth published two early poems,...
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29 January 1793
William Wordsworth
published two early poems, An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.
Early 1798 to May 1805: William Wordsworth composed the early version...
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Early 1798 to May 1805
William Wordsworth
composed the early version of what became The Prelude, as a distraction from the effort of working at his unrealised great poem.
4 October 1798: Wordsworth and Coleridge published at Bristol...
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4 October 1798
Wordsworth
and Coleridge
published at Bristol the first edition of their epoch-making poetry collection Lyrical Ballads.
About 25 January 1801: The second edition of Lyrical Ballads appeared,...
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About 25 January 1801
The second edition of Lyrical Ballads appeared, in two volumes, including along with its poems by Wordsworth
and Coleridge
the former's famous Preface, written in 1800.
15 April 1802: Dorothy Wordsworth recorded in her diary...
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15 April 1802
Dorothy Wordsworth
recorded in her diary how she and her brother
, out walking, came on a mass of wild daffodils in bloom at the edge of a lake.
3 September 1802: William Wordsworth composed his well-known...
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3 September 1802
William Wordsworth
composed his well-known sonnetUpon Westminster Bridge, responding to the power of the city, as well as countryside or wilderness, to arouse transcendent feelings.
Probably early May 1807: William Wordsworth published Poems in Two...
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Probably early May 1807
William Wordsworth
published Poems in Two Volumes; the Critical Review commented unkindly: A silly book is a serious evil; but it becomes absolutely insupportable when written by a man of sense.
From April 1810: The Rev. Joseph Wilkinson's Select Views...
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From April 1810
The Rev. Joseph Wilkinson
's Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire appeared in instalments, containing William Wordsworth
's introductory Description of the Scenery of the English Lakes and later text.
Probably August 1814: William Wordsworth published his poem The...
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Probably August 1814
William Wordsworth
published his poemThe Excursion.
March 1815: William Wordsworth published his Miscellaneous...
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March 1815
William Wordsworth
published his Miscellaneous Poems in two volumes; a third volume was added in 1820.
28 December 1817: The painter Benjamin Haydon held what later...
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28 December 1817
The painter Benjamin Haydon
held what later became known as the immortal dinner so that the young John Keats
might meet the eminent William Wordsworth
.
Early 1818: William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets,...
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Early 1818
William Hazlitt
opened On the Living Poets, the last of his Lectures on the English Poets, with a statement on gender issues.
Christmas 1819: William Wordsworth presented Lady Mary Lowther...
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Christmas 1819
William Wordsworth
presented Lady Mary Lowther
with a little manuscript volume of poems: those by women were mostly copied from the pages of Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Texts
Wordsworth, Dorothy, and William Wordsworth. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: The Alfoxden Journal 1798; The Grasmere Journals 1800-1803. Editor Darbishire, Helen, Oxford University Press, 1958.
Wordsworth, William, and Anne Finch. Poems and Extracts Chosen by William Wordsworth for an Album presented to Lady Mary Lowther, Christmas 1819. Editor Littledale, Harold, H. Frowde, 1905.
Maxwell, James Coutts, and William Wordsworth. “Table of Dates”. The Prelude, Penguin, 1971, pp. 7-15.
Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
Wordsworth, William et al. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Editors Selincourt, Ernest De et al., Clarendon, 1993.
Wordsworth, William, and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Later Years. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Clarendon Press, 1939.