William Wordsworth

Poems consists of thirty-three pieces, ranging from dramatic poems—the longest being The Story of Two Lives—to sonnets, on topics ranging from Italian politics to orphanhood. Formally, IB 's work is quite versatile though conventional...

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

The poems are a tear-jerking lot, including Wordsworth 's Poor Susan and The Sad Story of Ruth along with other assorted orphans, beggars, and The Little Wandering Cripple.

Its title comes from Wordsworth 's poem, The World is Too Much with Us.

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 .

The dedication celebrates her sister as the playmate of my childhood, the companion of my youth, and . . . the friend and blessing of my maturer years. Epigraphs from Wordsworth , Byron ,...

AC published, as Agatha Christie Mallowan, a collection of travel reminiscences, Come, Tell Me How You Live: the title (quoted from William Wordsworth questioning the leech-gatherer) puns on tell, the Arabic word...

She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry , who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage.

Supporting herself while in Europe by working as a foreign correspondent (the first woman to do so), she began reporting to the Tribune almost immediately on her arrival in Liverpool. While she includes...

RR published A Guilty Thing Surprised, a novel portraying an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister.

The preface to the work writhes between expression and suppression. MB alternately fears being blamed for vanity or presumption and hints at her ambition, citing Charlotte Smith . She admires Smith for having succeeded...

This lecture, given by the orthodox clergyman Rev. John Wordsworth (nephew of the poet ), had greatly angered her. From this time on, she regularly wrote reviews and essays, and she later remarked that the...

MS published Tribute to Wordsworth : A Miscellany of Opinion for the Centenary of the Poet's Death, a work on Wordsworth's reception in which she dealt with the twentieth century and Derek Stanford with the nineteenth.

William Wordsworth 's Description of the Scenery of the English Lakes appeared in April 1810 as an introduction to the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson 's Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire. It included a...

MG followed this great success with Worlds not Realized, 1856 (an instructional book whose title is adapted from a line in Wordsworth about the blank misgivings of the soul obstinately questioning the resistant physical...