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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| Education | Anna Swanwick | |
| 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 | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | |
| 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. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell, 1972. 23 |
| 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 | Rudyard Kipling | Even during the years of the detested Southsea school RK
was developing an appreciation for literature. He writes of being surprised when reading (something Mrs Holloway
forced him to do under threat of punishment) turned... |
| Education | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
| Education | John Ruskin | |
| 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... |
Timeline
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.
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
.
29 January 1793
William Wordsworth
published two early poems, An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.
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.
4 October 1798
Wordsworth
and Coleridge
published at Bristol the first edition of their epoch-making poetry collection Lyrical Ballads.
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.
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.
3 September 1802
William Wordsworth
composed his well-known sonnetUpon Westminster Bridge, responding to the power of the city, as well as countryside or wilderness, to arouse transcendent feelings.
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.
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.
Probably August 1814
William Wordsworth
published his poemThe Excursion.
March 1815
William Wordsworth
published his Miscellaneous Poems in two volumes; a third volume was added in 1820.
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
.
Early 1818
William Hazlitt
opened On the Living Poets, the last of his Lectures on the English Poets, with a statement on gender issues.
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.