William Wordsworth

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...

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...

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),...

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...

SM edited Very Heaven: Looking Back at the 1960s, a collection of essays on women in this radical decade whose title draws on William Wordsworth 's memory of being young and idealistic at the...

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...

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.

Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , and Thomas Carlyle .

The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...

The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...

Though AS disliked Samuel Johnson, many of her literary opinions were conservative. She still loved Ossian in 1796, when the texts were known to be forgeries. On 24 August 1807 (despite her admiration for Robert Southey

The work contains reminiscences of MCH 's friends and acquaintances. Among them were John Wilson Croker , the Norton family, William Wordsworth , Fanny Trollope , the younger Alexandre Dumas , and the daughter of Caroline Clive .