William Wordsworth

The Ladies and the rural ideal they embodied became famous in literary circles, an object of pilgrimage alike to the lesbian Anne Lister and to more conventional figures like William Wordsworth and the Irish poet...

This series was at least the catalyst for the first direct contact between RB and his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett , since she praised it in Lady Geraldine's Courtship, which she included in her...

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...

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...

William Wordsworth expressed a wish that he had written Life himself.

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...

A few months after publication, The Birth-Day was read with very much pleasure by the William WordsworthWordsworth clan.Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell Mitford discussed it in an exchange of letters. While Mitford thought...

Joseph Warton , who wrote on the same subject in the same genre, told a friend by the way her poem was the best of the two. This poem was chosen by William Wordsworth

Burton writes: The adoption and appropriation of Mary's ideas and expressions in his own work was a natural activity of Charles 's writing, but compared with the retrospective recognition of Dorothy Wordsworth 's contribution to...

After CB 's death, the Gentleman's Magazine called The Birth-Daya charming series of pictures of her youth. It thought comparison with Wordsworth 's The Prelude appropriate, observing that Bowles's work preceded...

The Critical Review gave a couple of paragraphs to the collection, praising its soft and genuine sadness, the easy and unpremeditated . . . singularly graceful language, and the refined, enthusiastic, and cultivated mind there...

This first poetic attempt was well received.H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum thought the poems too closely resembled works by Byron and Wordsworth , but allowed that there were some verses which...

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...

Barbara McGovern has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope 's hostility to AF . In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable. She also addressed...

A short review in The Academy classified the poem as a domestic epic, which the reviewer considered almost a new genre.This reviewer cited the influence on the author of Wordsworth and the Dora...