Connections
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Anthologization | L. E. L. | LEL's poetry was included in Christian Isobel Johnstone
's 1842 Rational Reading Lessons for children, and in 1879 in Louisa Anne Meredith
's Our Island Home, A Tasmanian Sketch Book, alongside other work by... |
Characters | E. H. Young | Quite unlike her later books, this one features a solitary heroine who takes a Wordsworth
ian delight in nature. Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31. 314 |
Dedications | Maria Jane Jewsbury | The editor of the Manchester Courier, Alaric Watts
, encouraged her to compile a volume of her writing and persuaded Hurst and Robinson
to publish the result, this book. She received £100 for Phantasmagoria... |
Dedications | Sara Coleridge | This work had been begun by SC
's husband, Henry Nelson Coleridge
, but she completed it after his early death. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Dedications | Louisa Anne Meredith | Louisa Anne Twamley (later LAM
) followed her Poems with several more books of verse on botanical themes. First came The Romance of Nature; or, The Flower Seasons, 1836, which again combines verse (about... |
Dedications | Felicia Hemans | 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
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 96 Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, 2002, pp. 12 - 89; various pages. 89 |
Education | Una Marson | UM
's favourite subject was English literature. She particularly loved Wordsworth
, who inspired her to resolve not . . . to be a good wage earner, but enjoy plain living and high thinking and... |
Education | John Ruskin | |
Education | Nina Bawden | NB
wanted to leave school to be a war correspondent, but a strong-minded aunt persuaded her to try for Somerville College, Oxford. In the general paper of the entrance exam, she wrote on the future... |
Education | Anna Mary Howitt | 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... |
Education | Meiling Jin | She was saved by the public Children's Library. She read omnivorously, beginning with the Dr Doolittle books (Hugh Lofting
) and fairy stories but missing out on Enid Blyton
(who was kept locked away)... |
Education | Jean Ingelow | In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare
, Southey
, Scott
, Wordsworth
, and Tennyson
. She also read Henry Drummond
's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb
's Letters. Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her Early Friends. Kennikat Press, 1972. 150-1 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell, 1972. 23 |
Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Education | Anna Brownell Jameson | Anna was educated by Miss Yokeley
, a governess, who taught her French. After the departure of Miss Yokeley, some time between 1803 and 1806, Anna acted as governess to her sisters. She also taught... |
Education | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps |
Timeline
1775: The first, posthumous, printing of Thomas...
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1775
The first, posthumous, printing of Thomas Gray
's sonnet on the death of Richard West
caused a literary sensation; it laid the foundation for Charlotte Smith
's Elegiac Sonnets, 1784, and the revival of the sonnet form.
Curran, Stuart. “Reading with Both Hands: The Dialog of Novelist and Poet”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Boston, MA, 27 Mar. 2004.
1791: William Gifford, in his satire The Baviad,...
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1791
William Gifford
, in his satire The Baviad, became the first to attack the Della Cruscan body of poetry which notably included work by Robert Merry
and Hannah Cowley
.
McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon, 1996.
74ff
29 January 1793: William Wordsworth published two early poems,...
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29 January 1793
William Wordsworth
published two early poems, An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.
Maxwell, James Coutts, and William Wordsworth. “Table of Dates”. The Prelude, Penguin, 1971, pp. 7-15.
8
Early 1798 to May 1805: William Wordsworth composed the early version...
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Early 1798 to May 1805
William Wordsworth
composed the early version of what became The Prelude, as a distraction from the effort of working at his unrealised great poem.
Maxwell, James Coutts, and William Wordsworth. “Table of Dates”. The Prelude, Penguin, 1971, pp. 7-15.
8, 10
Barrell, John. “To Stir up the People”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 17-19. 19
4 October 1798: Wordsworth and Coleridge published at Bristol...
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4 October 1798
Wordsworth
and Coleridge
published at Bristol the first edition of their epoch-making poetry collection Lyrical Ballads.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
1: 409, 370, 401-2
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Wordsworth
About 25 January 1801: The second edition of Lyrical Ballads appeared,...
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About 25 January 1801
The second edition of Lyrical Ballads appeared, in two volumes, including along with its poems by Wordsworth
and Coleridge
the former's famous Preface, written in 1800.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
1: 501
15 April 1802: Dorothy Wordsworth recorded in her diary...
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15 April 1802
Dorothy Wordsworth
recorded in her diary how she and her brother
, out walking, came on a mass of wild daffodils in bloom at the edge of a lake.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. The Grasmere Journals. Editor Woof, Pamela, Oxford University Press, 1993.
85
3 September 1802: William Wordsworth composed his well-known...
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3 September 1802
William Wordsworth
composed his well-known sonnet Upon Westminster Bridge, responding to the power of the city, as well as countryside or wilderness, to arouse transcendent feelings.
Tollet, Elizabeth. Poems on Several Occasions. J. Clarke, 1755.
152
Purkis, John. A Preface to Wordsworth. Scribner, 1970.
192
Probably early May 1807: William Wordsworth published Poems in Two...
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Probably early May 1807
William Wordsworth
published Poems in Two Volumes; the Critical Review commented unkindly: A silly book is a serious evil; but it becomes absolutely insupportable when written by a man of sense.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 11 (1807): 399
From April 1810: The Rev. Joseph Wilkinson's Select Views...
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From April 1810
The Rev. Joseph Wilkinson
's Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire appeared in instalments, containing William Wordsworth
's introductory Description of the Scenery of the English Lakes and later text.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 158-9
Probably August 1814: William Wordsworth published his poem The...
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Probably August 1814
William Wordsworth
published his poem The Excursion.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 260
March 1815: William Wordsworth published his Miscellaneous...
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March 1815
William Wordsworth
published his Miscellaneous Poems in two volumes; a third volume was added in 1820.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 269
28 December 1817: The painter Benjamin Haydon held what later...
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28 December 1817
The painter Benjamin Haydon
held what later became known as the immortal dinner so that the young John Keats
might meet the eminent William Wordsworth
.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
288-93
Early 1818: William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets,...
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Early 1818
William Hazlitt
opened On the Living Poets, the last of his Lectures on the English Poets, with a statement on gender issues.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
112
Christmas 1819: William Wordsworth presented Lady Mary Lowther...
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Christmas 1819
William Wordsworth
presented Lady Mary Lowther
with a little manuscript volume of poems: those by women were mostly copied from the pages of Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
288
Wordsworth, William, and Anne Finch. Poems and Extracts Chosen by William Wordsworth for an Album presented to Lady Mary Lowther, Christmas 1819. Editor Littledale, Harold, H. Frowde, 1905.
Texts
Wordsworth, William. An Evening Walk. J. Johnson, 1793.
Wordsworth, Dorothy, and William Wordsworth. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: The Alfoxden Journal 1798; The Grasmere Journals 1800-1803. Editor Darbishire, Helen, Oxford University Press, 1958.
Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. T. N. Longman, 1798.
Wordsworth, William, and Anne Finch. Poems and Extracts Chosen by William Wordsworth for an Album presented to Lady Mary Lowther, Christmas 1819. Editor Littledale, Harold, H. Frowde, 1905.
Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807, 2 vols.
Maxwell, James Coutts, and William Wordsworth. “Table of Dates”. The Prelude, Penguin, 1971, pp. 7-15.
Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
Wordsworth, William. The Excursion. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814.
Wordsworth, William et al. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Editors Selincourt, Ernest De et al., Clarendon, 1993, 8 vols.
Wordsworth, William, and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Later Years. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Clarendon Press, 1939, 3 vols.
Wordsworth, William. The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820, 4 vols.
Wordsworth, William. The Prelude. E. Moxon, 1850.