Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | William Hazlitt | The direction of WH
's life was shaped by his early meeting with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, and through him with William
and Dorothy Wordsworth
. |
Literary responses | Seamus Heaney | |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Norma Clarke
sees in this late work some of FH
's strongest poetry and a resolution of the conflicts and inhibitions of her earlier work: Deeply religious, personal, and direct, they reaffirm the centrality of... |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | 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. Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin. 737 |
Travel | Felicia Hemans | FH
travelled to Westmorland in the Lake District on the invitation of Wordsworth
. Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 209 |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | The connection between the male and the female poet was made by Maria Jane Jewsbury
, who was a good friend of the family, Dora Wordsworth
especially. Hemans brought one of her sons on the... |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | FH
was so popular overseas that she was strongly associated, in the mind of Wordsworth
at least, with a US audience. Her poems, particularly the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England from Records... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
Dedications | Felicia Hemans | National Lyrics, which collected many of the lyrics FH
had written for her sister and for composers, was dedicated to her friend Rose Lawrence
, and Scenes to Wordsworth
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 96 Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, pp. 12 - 89; various pages. 89 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Holford | Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott
, and although their relationship got off... |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | Because her husband
, like her father
, was well-connected, MCH
was introduced to a number of significant literary and social figures. She had vivid memories of meeting Henry Hallam
, Samuel Rogers
, and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | 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
. Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White. I: prelims; II: prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | 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... |
Education | Anna Mary Howitt | Until her mid-teens, AMH
moved freely in the literary atmosphere surrounding her parents. William Wordsworth
gave her a copy of a selection of his poems that had been chosen for children. When her parents brought... |
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