William Wordsworth

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...

Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Although his...

In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...

This series was at least the catalyst for the first direct contact between RB and his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett , since she praised it in Lady Geraldine's Courtship, which she included in her...

Joseph Warton , who wrote on the same subject in the same genre, told a friend by the way her poem was the best of the two. This poem was chosen by William Wordsworth

Burton writes: The adoption and appropriation of Mary's ideas and expressions in his own work was a natural activity of Charles 's writing, but compared with the retrospective recognition of Dorothy Wordsworth 's contribution to...

Recently Jonathan Wordsworth has called her a poet of genuine individuality, well worth recuperation, and Stuart Curran has linked her with Mary Bryant as Wordsworth ian poets. The appearance of her Collected Poems...

William Wordsworth expressed a wish that he had written Life himself.

Her editor Eugene Saxton wrote that the staff at Harper were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton

A few months after publication, The Birth-Day was read with very much pleasure by the William WordsworthWordsworth clan.Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell Mitford discussed it in an exchange of letters. While Mitford thought...

The Critical Review gave a couple of paragraphs to the collection, praising its soft and genuine sadness, the easy and unpremeditated . . . singularly graceful language, and the refined, enthusiastic, and cultivated mind there...

After CB 's death, the Gentleman's Magazine called The Birth-Daya charming series of pictures of her youth. It thought comparison with Wordsworth 's The Prelude appropriate, observing that Bowles's work preceded...

In a review for the Athenæum, George Walter Thornbury stated abruptly that AH 's collection has at least two merits,—it has no Preface and it has a purpose. Finding that the sonnets do not...

For centuries LMWM has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive...

After reading Phantasmagoria, Wordsworth forwarded it to Robert Southey to review. MJJ 's satire of Southey in First Efforts in Criticism prompted the Poet Laureate to decline. He wrote: The best advice [I] could...