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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Valentine Ackland | Warner and Ackland point out in a Note to the Reader, which is a kind of manifesto, that the text is not a collaboration, but rather a joint collection of their poetry. They explain... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Fleur Adcock | Below Loughrigg is largely a localised collection, haunted by the presence of Wordsworth
. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Aguilar | 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Aguilar | One of these stories, The Authoress is notable as a künstlerroman and a defence of GA
's ambitions as a writer. It is the tale of frustrated romance between a young woman writer and a... |
| Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | LA
met Henry Crabb Robinson
and William Wordsworth
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, Macmillan. 1: 200 |
| Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | LA
dined with Crabb Robinson
, Wordsworth
, Henry Coleridge
, and her niece Anna Letitia Le Breton
and nephew-in-law Philip Hemery Le Breton
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. 142 |
| Friends, Associates | William Harrison Ainsworth | At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, Douglas Jerrold
, William Wordsworth
, and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank
. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
| Friends, Associates | Cecil Frances Alexander | The writers whom CFA
most admired during her childhood were Scott
, Gray
, and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth
and Byron
. Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix. xxiii |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | She met Wordsworth
and Southey
in the Lake District in 1808, and was corresponding with Wordsworth by 1812. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 240 Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books. 23 Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books. 57 |
| Textual Features | Joanna Baillie | 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... |
| Textual Features | Joanna Baillie | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
took the lead in promoting the volume. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 11 |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | Here she gathered together poems by such writers as Walter Scott
, George Crabbe
, William Wordsworth
, Robert Southey
, Felicia Hemans
(whose work Baillie warmly admired), Anne Grant
of Laggan, Anna Maria Porter |
| 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. 38 (1803): 110ff Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 143 |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | She was dazzled by him at their first meeting, and became his mentor. She was one of the eminent names to whom in 1801 he and Wordsworth
sent a complementry copy of the epoch-making second... |
Timeline
1775: The first, posthumous, printing of Thomas...
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 poem The...
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Probably August 1814
William Wordsworth
published his poemThe Excursion.
March 1815: William Wordsworth published his Miscellaneous...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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.
Texts
Wordsworth, Dorothy, and William Wordsworth. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: The Alfoxden Journal 1798; The Grasmere Journals 1800-1803. Editor Darbishire, Helen, Oxford University Press, 1958.
Wordsworth, William, and Anne Finch. Poems and Extracts Chosen by William Wordsworth for an Album presented to Lady Mary Lowther, Christmas 1819. Editor Littledale, Harold, H. Frowde, 1905.
Maxwell, James Coutts, and William Wordsworth. “Table of Dates”. The Prelude, Penguin, 1971, pp. 7-15.
Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
Wordsworth, William et al. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Editors Selincourt, Ernest De et al., Clarendon, 1993.
Wordsworth, William, and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Later Years. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Clarendon Press, 1939.