William Wordsworth

This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW , for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost...

Following the correspondence of SC 's mother with Thomas Poole (Minnow among Tritons. Mrs. S.T. Coleridge 's letters to Thomas Poole, 1799-1834, a volume entitled Sara Coleridge and Henry Reed was published in...

Among AM 's surviving letters are a few to friends about her early publications and her feelings about them. She kept her letters to her son, Martin, during his final year at Eton . To...

Sometime after 1864 MB worked together with Tennyson , Landor , and Wordsworth in a miscellany encouraged by Lord Northampton (brother of her friend Lady Marian Alford, and son of the remarkable poet Margaret, Lady Northampton

Sir Walter Scott had encouraged her from poetry into novel-writing. Unless the condition of her eyes improved miraculously during the sixteen months before publication, she must have composed by dictating to an amanuensis. Copies of...

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...

The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth : She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM

By mid-August 1793 Smith had written what was probably a poem called Tintern Abbey. If it was indeed a poem, it preceded Wordsworth 's more famous composition of this name by five years.

It is in large format from John Murray , illustrated with engravings from drawings by the author's late husband , and dedicated to the queen . Subscribers included most of the British royal family, the...

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 .

The subject-matter of her contributions was dictated and limited by her editor, Dunbar T. Wint , who did not believe that women had any place in the political or intellectual arena. UM nevertheless found opportunities...

AB titled an ambitious novel, Imperial Palace, from a phrase used by William Wordsworth for the mysterious origins of the human individual.

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. She...

WC 's radio play Shall I Call Thee Bard? A Portrait of Jason Strugnell was broadcast by BBC Radio 3. The opening words of the title pun on a question addressed by Wordsworth to the...

A third society or smart-set novel of similar type, Those Barren Leaves (titled from Wordsworth ), followed in 1925.