William Wordsworth

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Standard Name: Wordsworth, William
Three-quarter-length painting of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842, known as "Wordsworth on Helvellyn" (though it was painted in London, with the mountain scene done from memory). Haydon was responding to a poem Wordsworth wrote for him; Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), alerted by Mary Russell Mitford, wrote a poem about the painting. Wordsworth stands tall, arms folded and gazing downwards, showing his beaky face and bald head framed in remaining white hair and sideburns. National Portr

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Reception Felicia Hemans
FH 's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge and Wordsworth , if not Scott and Byron . She proved, as...
Residence Harriet Martineau
She designed it herself, and her recently-acquired friend Wordsworth planted a tree in the grounds. (He also pitched in with her farming experiments.) The house was opposite Fox How, where her friend Thomas Arnold
Residence Dorothy Wordsworth
DW and her brother William arrived at midnight at Racedown Lodge in northern Dorset, a house offered to them rent-free by West India merchant John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had become friendly with...
Residence Dorothy Wordsworth
William and DW moved from Racedown in Dorset to Alfoxden House, four miles from Nether Stowey in Somerset, at the foot of the Quantock Hills, in order to be close to Coleridge and...
Residence Dorothy Wordsworth
DW and her brother , after their time abroad and after staying seven months with the Hutchinsons at Sockburn-on-Tees, arrived at the cottage they had rented at Grasmere, later (after the Wordsworths' time) named...
Residence Eliza Fletcher
In 1840 William WordsworthhelpedEF to buy Lancrigg in Easedale, Cumberland.
Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon, 1989.
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Joanna Baillie observed that she had built herself a nest in that romantic nook though her winter residence is in Edin[bu]r[gh].
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 699
Residence Dorothy Wordsworth
DW , with William and Mary Wordsworth and their family, moved from Dove Cottage to Allan Bank, another rented house in Grasmere.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 133-4
Residence Dora Carrington
Carrington loved and was creatively inspired by their new home. She compared it to Dorothy and William Wordsworth 's Lake District arrangements.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
161
Residence E. M. Delafield
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
Residence Mary Augusta Ward
She was essentially orphaned after her parents went to Dublin: her mother never wrote, and her father seldom visited.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Fox How (the Arnold family home) was to her a magical place steeped with intertwined...
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Critic Deryn Rees-Jones discerns widely varied influences on CAD 's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth , Robert Browning , T. S. Eliot , Auden , Dylan Thomas , Larkin , and Ted Hughes ...
Textual Features Q. D. Leavis
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
qtd. in
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
140
of his time.She quotes...
Textual Features Patricia Beer
Many of the poems focus on family and community history, others on death or on literary subjects. Wordsworth celebrates the poet to whom the world stood for nothing else, but really was.
Beer, Patricia. Collected Poems. Carcanet, 1988.
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Witch has...
Textual Features Mary Bryan
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...
Textual Features Patricia Beer
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...

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