William Wordsworth

Joanna Baillie (a well qualified judge) thought few people have so many friends as EF , and that they all warmly esteemed as well as loving her. At first meeting, Fletcher did not...

JW visited Harriet Martineau at her home, The Knoll, in Ambleside. They paid a call on Wordsworth , whom Julia found conceited and disagreeable.

One of Mary Lamb 's bouts of madness seems to have been brought on by agitation about the break between Coleridge and theWordsworths .

For DW , the scanty education deemed suitable for females in the English provinces at this time was reinforced first by reading poetry, particularly Burns , with her brother William . Later she studied French...

The title, which comes from a sonnet by William Wordsworth , seems to relate less to its context there than to the general irony of the presumed quietness of nuns, who in this story have...

Again, ATR 's stay at Chateau Bréquerecque, Boulogne, in 1854 provided the basis for the novel's setting.She takes chapter epigraphs from a wide range of folk and literary sources, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Wordsworth .

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

A Fugue in Time has three epigraphs: a description of the simultaneous, independent melodies present in Bach 's fugues; eighteen lines from T. S. Eliot 's still fairly recent East Coker (from Home is where...

Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition.John Armstrong in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...

Below Loughrigg is largely a localised collection, haunted by the presence of Wordsworth .

This interesting novel is a kind of rake's progress that seems to speak against the system of primogeniture.The hero (and first-person narrator) is that familiar figure, an upper-class child spoiled by his parents. He had...

William Enfield quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy . Her volume...

Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)...

The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...

To the Writer of a Poem on a Bridge speaks to Wordsworth 's Upon Westminster Bridge. The first stanza reads: Dear builder of the Bridge, with thee I stood
And watched the waters...