William Wordsworth

Edgar Allan Poe , reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS did too much borrowing: from Hannah More , William Cowper , William Wordsworth , and Byron . Critic Emily Stipes Watts

Motion mentions the famous comparison of Heaney with Yeats , and observes that they shared a commitment to the matter of Ireland, but that Heaney eschews Yeats's cloudy symbols for an investment in the...

She loved teaching grammar, and converting her pupils to Wordsworth and other poetry, but she hated the headmaster's enthusiastic use of corporal punishment, ran a campaign against it, and was sacked from her job.

Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato to Arthur Koestler . She was marvellously eclectic, with a passion...

RWE studied theology at Harvard but eventually left the priesthood when he came to doubt the sacraments. He travelled to Europe and met Carlyle , Coleridge , and Wordsworth . Upon his return to America...

Although she valued her verse as a vehicle to express her acute perceptions of pleasure and pain, AE preferred music. She was bothered by what she called, quoting William Wordsworth , the weight of too...

ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning .

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...

AT became poet laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth , who had died that April.

LH 's gender politics were less forward-looking than his attitudes to government. In early versions of his poem The Feast of the Poets (published in 1814) he dismissed those driv'llers of the penWilliam Wordsworth

This indicates an active political conscience. Lord Lonsdale wielded his huge local power on behalf of the Tory Party. In February this year there were riots in Kendal when two sons of Lonsdale, standing as...

DW is chiefly remembered for her Romantic-period journals, especially for her descriptions of the detail of nature, landscape, growth, and seasonal change. The journals, however, are equally remarkable for observing the doings of people: both...

Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth and Coleridge . In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly...

Subscribers included Wordsworth , Southey , and De Quincey , all of them writers living in the area. Commentator Jonathan Wordsworth suggests that the subscription list, which clearly took careful fund-raising work, may have been...

This was followed by a review, in the August issue, of the novels of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton) (which she put forward as worth examining because of their moral qualities). Further essays by MF appeared...