William Wordsworth

RWE studied theology at Harvard but eventually left the priesthood when he came to doubt the sacraments. He travelled to Europe and met Carlyle , Coleridge , and Wordsworth . Upon his return to America...

Although she valued her verse as a vehicle to express her acute perceptions of pleasure and pain, AE preferred music. She was bothered by what she called, quoting William Wordsworth , the weight of too...

ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning .

MMB wrote later that many people thought her a singular, and perhaps imprudent person, because I rhymed, and ventured into the world as an artist; but I belonged to a large family, and dreaded dependence...

AT became poet laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth , who had died that April.

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...

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...

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...

William Wordsworth expressed a wish that he had written Life himself.

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. Although his...

A few months after publication, The Birth-Day was read with very much pleasure by the William WordsworthWordsworth clan.Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell Mitford discussed it in an exchange of letters. While Mitford thought...

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. This poem was chosen by William Wordsworth

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...

After CB 's death, the Gentleman's Magazine called The Birth-Daya charming series of pictures of her youth. It thought comparison with Wordsworth 's The Prelude appropriate, observing that Bowles's work preceded...

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 there...