William Wordsworth

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

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...

She was dazzled by him at their first meeting, and became his mentor. She was one of the eminent names to whom in 1801 he and Wordsworth sent a complementry copy of the epoch-making second...

A week later, calling her an amiable lady, he claimed (falsely) that she saw Richardson as the equal of Shakespeare . In January 1812 he shocked Henry Crabb Robinson (who thought this behaviour personally...

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...

NB wanted to leave school to be a war correspondent, but a strong-minded aunt persuaded her to try for Somerville College, Oxford. In the general paper of the entrance exam, she wrote on the future...

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...

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...

Of the anthology poems, The Ship's Return is a ballad in which a lover fails to return with his ship, and A Sketch pictures a mother with her baby. One of the magazine pieces, Retrospection...

AB titled an ambitious novel, Imperial Palace, from a phrase used by William Wordsworth for the mysterious origins of the human individual.

MMB wrote later that many people thought her a singular, and perhaps imprudent person, because I rhymed, and ventured into the world as an artist; but I belonged to a large family, and dreaded dependence...

In the same preface EOB promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth , apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen. Between the publication of the two volumes, however, Wordsworth's son forbade...

The final line invokes Wordsworth 's The Female Vagrant, andIB also echoes Thomas Hood 's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant...

Poems consists of thirty-three pieces, ranging from dramatic poems—the longest being The Story of Two Lives—to sonnets, on topics ranging from Italian politics to orphanhood. Formally, IB 's work is quite versatile though conventional...

Maxwell had been an admirer of SB 's writing since his early youth: with a father serving in India, he used her poem The Nabob to feed his imaginings of how it would be when...