William Wordsworth

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Standard Name: Wordsworth, William

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Textual Production Arnold Bennett
AB titled an ambitious novel, Imperial Palace, from a phrase used by William Wordsworth for the mysterious origins of the human individual.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Textual Production Wendy Cope
WC 's radio play Shall I Call Thee Bard? A Portrait of Jason Strugnell was broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
The opening words of the title pun on a question addressed by Wordsworth to the...
Textual Production Michèle Roberts
MR 's Fair Exchange, a historical novel, dealt with episodes in the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft , William Wordsworth , and Annette Vallon .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34.
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Textual Production A. S. Byatt
In Unruly Times, 1989, she considers the shared thinking of Wordsworth and Coleridge , and its development in the context of epoch-making public events and the intellectual climate which surrounded them.
Textual Production Mary Robinson
In her capacity as editor she made an exception to the paper's policy of publishing original poems only, for the sake of Wordsworth 's The Mad Mother, reprinted from Lyrical Ballads.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There followed, also in the Athenæum, a review of Wordsworth 's poems in August 1842. As well as these, EBB provided both critical contributions on Carlyle and Tennyson , and material gleaned from her...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
Among the novels where ET highlights gender roles by reworking well-known stories, Alice Fell, 1980, deals with the Greek myth of Persephone under a title borrowed from William Wordsworth .
Textual Production Aldous Huxley
A third society or smart-set novel of similar type, Those Barren Leaves (titled from Wordsworth ), followed in 1925.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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
Textual Production Alice Meynell
AM wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie 's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning (1903),...
Textual Production Flora Thompson
She had begun this the summer after the war, calling it These Too Were Victorians. Her publisher, Geoffrey Cumberlege , wrote with congratulations on the first instalment she sent him, and offered her an...
Textual Production Susanna Blamire
Maxwell had been an admirer of SB 's writing since his early youth: with a father serving in India, he used her poem The Nabob to feed his imaginings of how it would be when...
Textual Production Elizabeth Smith
By mid-August 1793 Smith had written what was probably a poem called Tintern Abbey.
Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell.
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If it was indeed a poem, it preceded Wordsworth 's more famous composition of this name by five years.
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
Its title comes from Wordsworth 's poem, The World is Too Much with Us.
Textual Production Susanna Blamire
Gilpin/Coward (who provided a good deal of biographical information and other commentary) argued that SB had the most original and most reflective mind that Cumberland has produced, apart from William Wordsworth .
Blamire, Susanna, and Catherine Gilpin. Songs and Poems. Editor Coward, George, George Routledge.
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Timeline

January 1823: Charles Lamb published the first volume of...

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January 1823

Charles Lamb published the first volume of his Essays of Elia, which had been appearing regularly since August 1820 in the London Magazine.

1825: Alexander Dyce, then a twenty-seven-year-old...

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1825

Alexander Dyce , then a twenty-seven-year-old reluctant clergyman, published his Specimens of British Poetesses, a project in rediscovering women's literary history.

1830: Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans's Dartmoor,...

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1830

Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans 's Dartmoor, a poem, Sophie Dixon published at Plymouth two journals, in prose and verse, of excursions around the moor.

8 September 1836: The Transcendental Club (also known as the...

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8 September 1836

The Transcendental Club (also known as the Hedge Club and the Symposium ) was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts; it brought together various thinkers who were at the forefront of Transcendentalism.

May 1837: Thomas Noon Talfourd, MP for Reading, author,...

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May 1837

Thomas Noon Talfourd , MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.

7 September 1838: Grace Darling, twenty-two-year-old daughter...

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7 September 1838

Grace Darling , twenty-two-year-old daughter of the lighthouse-keeper of the Longstone light on the Outer Farne Islands off the Northumbrian coast, helped her father row out in a clumsy boat through heavy seas to rescue...

July 1850: The early version of William Wordsworth's...

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July 1850

The early version of William Wordsworth 's Prelude, written between 1799 and May 1805, was posthumously published.

February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...

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February 1930

D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, which includes bad poetry by John Dryden , John Keats , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning along with other canonical figures.

10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...

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10 September 2003

Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.

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