William Wordsworth

The direction of WH 's life was shaped by his early meeting with Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and through him with William and Dorothy Wordsworth .

Motion mentions the famous comparison of Heaney with Yeats , and observes that they shared a commitment to the matter of Ireland, but that Heaney eschews Yeats's cloudy symbols for an investment in the...

FH travelled to Westmorland in the Lake District on the invitation of Wordsworth .

The connection between the male and the female poet was made by Maria Jane Jewsbury , who was a good friend of the family, Dora Wordsworth especially. Hemans brought one of her sons on the...

FH was so popular overseas that she was strongly associated, in the mind of Wordsworth at least, with a US audience. Her poems, particularly the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England from Records...

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

National Lyrics, which collected many of the lyrics FH had written for her sister and for composers, was dedicated to her friend Rose Lawrence , and Scenes to Wordsworth .

Norma Clarke sees in this late work some of FH 's strongest poetry and a resolution of the conflicts and inhibitions of her earlier work: Deeply religious, personal, and direct, they reaffirm the centrality of...

FH 's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge and Wordsworth , if not Scott and Byron . She proved, as...

Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Although his...

Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott , and although their relationship got off...

Because her husband , like her father , was well-connected, MCH was introduced to a number of significant literary and social figures. She had vivid memories of meeting Henry Hallam , Samuel Rogers , and...

The work contains reminiscences of MCH 's friends and acquaintances. Among them were John Wilson Croker , the Norton family, William Wordsworth , Fanny Trollope , the younger Alexandre Dumas , and the daughter of Caroline Clive .

MCH raises the tone of her work with chapter-headings from Wordsworth , Shakespeare , Dryden , and others, most of them asserting the value of the poor and powerless, or protesting about the deficiencies of...

Until her mid-teens, AMH moved freely in the literary atmosphere surrounding her parents. William Wordsworth gave her a copy of a selection of his poems that had been chosen for children. When her parents brought...