William Wordsworth

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

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...

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

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...

Despite the generality of her introduction, Stark relates her particular experiences in Aden, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq. She depicts the Arab character through detailed descriptions and through...

In addition to reviews, RMW contributed sixteen signed poems, including one entitled The Lost Leader, which was published one week after his death in tribute to the poet William Ernest Henley who had died...

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...

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.Witch has...

She insists that even Jane Austen . . . could write letters of a bitchiness and coarseness not inferrable from the impeccable sense of human values in her books. She posits an underlying double...

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...

Though she avoids apology and excessive humility, AY seeks sympathy in this volume by touching on her own poverty and suffering. She perhaps took this technique from the craze for Goethe 's Werther, which...

The range of her poems shows the influence of both Byron and Wordsworth . There are monologues evincing deep suffering and social alienation and lyrics evoking the power of nature. As Angela Leighton argues (following...

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 of his time. She...

Her vindication of unmarried women drawing intellectual and social authority from their relationship with the Church of England brings to mind Mary Astell . She appears to have learned from women writers like Sarah Trimmer