William Wordsworth

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Standard Name: Wordsworth, William
Three-quarter-length painting of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842, known as "Wordsworth on Helvellyn" (though it was painted in London, with the mountain scene done from memory). Haydon was responding to a poem Wordsworth wrote for him; Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), alerted by Mary Russell Mitford, wrote a poem about the painting. Wordsworth stands tall, arms folded and gazing downwards, showing his beaky face and bald head framed in remaining white hair and sideburns. National Portr

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Literary responses Anne Bannerman
The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott , John Leyden , and William Wordsworth .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
38 (1803): 110ff
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
143
The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...
Literary responses Felicia Hemans
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...
Literary responses Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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...
Literary responses Mary Ann Browne
This collection was highly praised by William Wordsworth .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Literary responses Augusta Webster
This first poetic attempt was well received.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 333
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...
Literary responses Felicia Hemans
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.
Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
737
Although his...
Literary responses Susanna Blamire
In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...
Literary responses Robert Browning
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...
Literary responses Jane Warton
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.
qtd. in
Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
continuous series 231
, No. 1, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92.
85
This poem was chosen by William Wordsworth
Literary responses Mary Lamb
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...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
William Wordsworth expressed a wish that he had written Life himself.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
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Literary responses Caroline Norton
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...
Literary responses Caroline Bowles
A few months after publication, The Birth-Day was read with very much pleasure by the William WordsworthWordsworth clan.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
122
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell Mitford discussed it in an exchange of letters. While Mitford thought...
Literary responses Caroline Bowles
After CB 's death, the Gentleman's Magazine called The Birth-Daya charming series of pictures of her youth.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(September 1854): 309
It thought comparison with Wordsworth 's The Prelude appropriate, observing that Bowles's work preceded...
Literary responses Mary Bryan
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
qtd. in
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.
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