William Wordsworth

While staying near the village of Ambleside in the Lake District, EG met William Wordsworth and received his autograph.

She wrote comments in letters about famous men, finding Thomas Campbella pretty little, delicate finical gentleman who would look well in feminine dress and occupations, and William Wordsworth a venerable old man, delightfully...

One of Mary Lamb 's bouts of madness seems to have been brought on by agitation about the break between Coleridge and theWordsworths .

For DW , the scanty education deemed suitable for females in the English provinces at this time was reinforced first by reading poetry, particularly Burns , with her brother William . Later she studied French...

William Enfield quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy . Her volume...

The elderly narrator of The Deformed is physician to the family of the Marquess of Brandon, in the little town of Carstones, which depends on the marquess and seems like an appendage to his castle...

Her writing, like Emily's, was profoundly influenced by nineteenth-century English writers and poets. LMM named Hemans and Byron in personal letters; Emily cites Tennyson and Wordsworth .

Below Loughrigg is largely a localised collection, haunted by the presence of Wordsworth .

To the Writer of a Poem on a Bridge speaks to Wordsworth 's Upon Westminster Bridge. The first stanza reads: Dear builder of the Bridge, with thee I stood
And watched the waters...

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...

A Fugue in Time has three epigraphs: a description of the simultaneous, independent melodies present in Bach 's fugues; eighteen lines from T. S. Eliot 's still fairly recent East Coker (from Home is where...

The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...

ALB was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge , though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the...

MD 's critical study Wordsworth addressed the work of a poet who, she says, has influenced her thinking.

The title-page quotes William Wordsworth . At the beginning of the collection a male narrator, London-born with a Welsh mother, travels after his mother's death to Chirk (her native place). The tales' framework is desultory...