William Wordsworth

She insists that even Jane Austen . . . could write letters of a bitchiness and coarseness not inferrable from the impeccable sense of human values in her books. She posits an underlying double...

She wrote him long letters, discussing his work and opinions as well as her own, in an elaborately parenthetical and breathless style. The first extant letter begins, Will you pity—I have said—or will you not...

It incorporated fifty new poems written since her collected volume. Among them, miscellaneous pieces succeed to a sequence of twelve sonnets entitled Wessex Calendar and a set of modern imagist verses entitled Observations. The...

QDL 's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop notes, her work recalls Wordsworth 's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants of his time. She...

The range of her poems shows the influence of both Byron and Wordsworth . There are monologues evincing deep suffering and social alienation and lyrics evoking the power of nature. As Angela Leighton argues (following...

The background to this dense, richly-packed book includes a number of defining political events: the career of Toussaint L'Ouverture (discovered by Douglas through studying Wordsworth at school), the Irish Civil War; the trial of Sacco

Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle , Goethe , Emerson , and Shakespeare . Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and...

The poems present human shifts of mood and quirks of feeling. They are sensitively observed and charmingly written. The only modern poets she yet knew of to admire, JB said later, were William Hayley and...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

The 1798 instalment of the series consists of three plays, two on love (the comedy The Tryal and the tragedy Count Basil) and one, the tragedy De Monfort, on hate. De Monfort himself...

The Muse Strikes Back does not show WC answering in anger. Her poem to John Clare (written for the John Clare Society ) is a celebration and a declaration of kinship: Awake in the early...

It seeks to enlarge vocabulary by omitting words and leaving the young readers to supply the gaps. Topics include life in other countries. The book features poetry by L. E. L. and Wordsworth .

The death of her infant son, probably in June 1655, drew from KP two heart-rending poems, one formally entitled Epitaph. On Hector Phillips. At St Sith's Church, the other On the death of my...

Carrington loved and was creatively inspired by their new home. She compared it to Dorothy and William Wordsworth 's Lake District arrangements.

During EMD 's childhood, her family had a country estate at The Falls, Llandogo, Monmouthshire. The house (now a nursing home) stands near Tintern Abbey (scene of a famous poem by Wordsworth ). EMD