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Textual Features | Isa Blagden | 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... |
Textual Features | Mary Charlton | The poems are a tear-jerking lot, including Wordsworth
's Poor Susan and The Sad Story of Ruth along with other assorted orphans, beggars, and The Little Wandering Cripple. |
Textual Features | Valentine Ackland | Warner and Ackland point out in a Note to the Reader, which is a kind of manifesto, that the text is not a collaboration, but rather a joint collection of their poetry. They explain... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Critic Deryn Rees-Jones
discerns widely varied influences on CAD
's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth
, Robert Browning
, T. S. Eliot
, Auden
, Dylan Thomas
, Larkin
, and Ted Hughes
... |
Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | In addition to reviews, RMW
contributed sixteen signed poems, including one entitled The Lost Leader, which was published one week after his death in tribute to the poet William Ernest Henley
who had died... |
Textual Features | Freya Stark | Despite the generality of her introduction, Stark relates her particular experiences in Aden, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq. She depicts the Arab character through detailed descriptions and through... |
Textual Features | Mary Bryan | She wrote him long letters, discussing his work and opinions as well as her own, in an elaborately parenthetical and breathless style. The first extant letter begins, Will you pity—I have said—or will you not... |
Textual Features | Patricia Beer | 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. Beer, Patricia. Collected Poems. Carcanet. 25 |
Textual Features | Marghanita Laski | She insists that even Jane Austen
. . . could write letters of a bitchiness and coarseness not inferrable from the impeccable sense of human values in her books. Laski, Marghanita. “To the Editor: ’George Eliot and Her World’”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3725, p. 869. 869 |
Textual Features | Patricia Beer | 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... |
Textual Features | Emma Caroline Wood | The volume included selections from Byron
, George Eliot
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, Christina Rossetti
, Sir Walter Scott
, Alfred Lord Tennyson
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and William Wordsworth
. |
Textual Features | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop
notes, her work recalls Wordsworth
's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 140 |
Textual Features | Emily Brontë | The range of her poems shows the influence of both Byron
and Wordsworth
. There are monologues evincing deep suffering and social alienation and lyrics evoking the power of nature. As Angela Leighton
argues (following... |
Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
and her brother William
arrived at midnight at Racedown Lodge in northern Dorset, a house offered to them rent-free by West India merchant John Pretor Pinney
, whose sons had become friendly with... |
Residence | Eliza Fletcher | In 1840 William WordsworthhelpedEF
to buy Lancrigg in Easedale, Cumberland. Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon. 410 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 699 |
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