William Wordsworth

The only daughter in a family of boys, ESP credited her father for her intellectual development: He was my climate. As soon as I began to think, I began to reverence thought and study and...

Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle , Goethe , Emerson , and Shakespeare . Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and...

The Critical Review, which had praised AO 's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson 's Clarissa or...

Between the death of Southey , the Poet Laureate, and the appointment of Wordsworth as his successor, CN wrote to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel , to request the position for herself.

The Athenæum pronounced in fairly sympathetic tones that this volume bore a pathetic and direct reference upon the position and fortunes of its writer, alluding to the bereavements enforced by inexorable laws that denied Norton...

The title, condensed from two lines in Wordsworth 's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, alludes to the dimming and flattening of once-acute sensations. One of these poems says that Love can never be...

Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato to Arthur Koestler . She was marvellously eclectic, with a passion...

Once an omnivorous reader, HM restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper as a poet whom I can read on Sunday. From...

Her writing, like Emily's, was profoundly influenced by nineteenth-century English writers and poets. LMM named Hemans and Byron in personal letters; Emily cites Tennyson and Wordsworth .

For centuries LMWM has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive...

She wrote comments in letters about famous men, finding Thomas Campbella pretty little, delicate finical gentleman who would look well in feminine dress and occupations, and William Wordsworth a venerable old man, delightfully...

Her editor Eugene Saxton wrote that the staff at Harper were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton

AM 's associations with Aubrey de Vere , Patmore , and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley , Soeur Monique of Wordsworth , An Unmarked Festival...

AM wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie 's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning (1903),...