William Wordsworth

Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition.John Armstrong in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...

Published by Jackson and Walford in London and by Simms and Dinham in Manchester, the book opens with several invocational stanzas that name both Felicia Hemans and William Wordsworth as inspirational figures for the...

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...

Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)...

CH heads her volumes and chapters with quotations. Wordsworth is the most-used here; among other lines, he is cited for A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little farther...

Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...

EAP was projecting an essay periodical in 1815 (she had the first two numbers planned) when this long poem, written at sixteen, appeared. At about the same time she was reading Wordsworth'sRecluse and poems...

Of the anthology poems, The Ship's Return is a ballad in which a lover fails to return with his ship, and A Sketch pictures a mother with her baby. One of the magazine pieces, Retrospection...

One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray , was written not by CF but by her friend Mary Berry , some time before...

In the introduction to the book of poems that was her first publication, MJ noted that poetry was a form of expression that comes easier to me than most others. This state of affairs was...

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...

There follows a series of six stories under the general title A Sketch from the Parlour of my Inn, three of which open with quotations from William Wordsworth . The final story in this...

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...

Her postscript to the volume invokes Wordsworth as model (as, indeed, her title invokes the joint work of Wordsworth and Coleridge ). Her titles (like The Shepherd's Dog and The Poor, Singing Dame) copy...