William Wordsworth

Fitzallan first mesmerises Eileen Dundas in a harmless, social situation, but eventually puts her in a trance and has her kill Geoffrey Carresford, whom she loves and is expected to marry, and who has penetrated...

In Holiday Stories for Boys and GirlsMAB writes that she has copied real life because she is not clever enough to make up invented stories.Sybil's Book portrays four girls growing up and...

MCH raises the tone of her work with chapter-headings from Wordsworth , Shakespeare , Dryden , and others, most of them asserting the value of the poor and powerless, or protesting about the deficiencies of...

Elizabeth Isabella Spence , reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. In 1990 Donna Landry wrote of her complex contradictions under the heading...

The poems tend to the plaintive, but an allegiance to Wordsworth and to his rule of simplicity keeps MB from overstatement. The opening poem in the volume is a critical appreciation of Wordsworth's achievement which...

DW 's Alfoxden journal, written in close association with both William Wordsworth and Coleridge , filtered into the poetry of each. Her phrases surface in The Ancient Mariner (whose restless gossamers come from her restless...

Published by Jackson and Walford in London and by Simms and Dinham in Manchester, the book opens with several invocational stanzas that name both Felicia Hemans and William Wordsworth as inspirational figures for the...

Nearly a decade before Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, but following William Wordsworth 's Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman and Felicia Hemans 's The Indian Woman's Lament...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

Before the work was published, MJJ sent William Wordsworth , whom she had never met, a copy of the first volume. In her letter she thanked him for his inspiration and expressed her hope that...

Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition.John Armstrong in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...

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...

These essays are a paradox: colloquial and popular in their enthusiasms, effortlessly learned in their handling. Smith is highly personal as she recounts her cultural discoveries: of a biracial chareacter claiming liberty of creative freedom...

Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)...

The Ladies and the rural ideal they embodied became famous in literary circles, an object of pilgrimage alike to the lesbian Anne Lister and to more conventional figures like William Wordsworth and the Irish poet...