William Wordsworth

MS claimed that William Wordsworth was her friend.

Family friends sympathetic to Freya's feelings of entrapment at Dronero sent her gifts of books: she was especially passionate about Shakespeare , Sir Walter Scott , Byron , Keats , Kipling , Shelley , Wordsworth

Despite the generality of her introduction, Stark relates her particular experiences in Aden, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq. She depicts the Arab character through detailed descriptions and through...

The title-page quotes William Wordsworth . At the beginning of the collection a male narrator, London-born with a Welsh mother, travels after his mother's death to Chirk (her native place). The tales' framework is desultory...

MS published Tribute to Wordsworth : A Miscellany of Opinion for the Centenary of the Poet's Death, a work on Wordsworth's reception in which she dealt with the twentieth century and Derek Stanford with the nineteenth.

Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth and Coleridge . In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

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...

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...

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 .

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