William Wordsworth

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.

This quotation was used to head an enthusiastic notice by US critic Julia Epstein in the Washington Post Book World. Johnston, wrote Epstein, coils her language so tightly that she achieves the compression we...

Wordsworth chose Smith's sonnets, with Milton 's and his own, as domestic reading on Christmas Eve 1802. Thirty years later Coleridge spoke of the personal or egotistical elegiac form as standing at the heart of...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote in her copy of the London reprint of LP 's Memoirs, as good Poetry as Pope s [sic].Wordsworth also admired it.

The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott , John Leyden , and William Wordsworth .The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...

The title and publisher convinced Dorothy Wordsworth that MR was cashing in on the fame of her brother 's Lyrical Ballads; she told a friend that he was thinking of changing his own title...

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...

This collection was highly praised by William Wordsworth .

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

Irish critic Colm Tóibín , who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns , Wordsworth ...

William Wordsworth included an excerpt from one of these poems, St John the Baptist, in the manuscript anthology he compiled for Lady Mary Lowther at Christmas 1819. The anthologised lines end finely, Excess and...