William Wordsworth

Joseph Warton , who wrote on the same subject in the same genre, told a friend by the way her poem was the best of the two. This poem was chosen by William Wordsworth

Burton writes: The adoption and appropriation of Mary's ideas and expressions in his own work was a natural activity of Charles 's writing, but compared with the retrospective recognition of Dorothy Wordsworth 's contribution to...

After CB 's death, the Gentleman's Magazine called The Birth-Daya charming series of pictures of her youth. It thought comparison with Wordsworth 's The Prelude appropriate, observing that Bowles's work preceded...

The Critical Review gave a couple of paragraphs to the collection, praising its soft and genuine sadness, the easy and unpremeditated . . . singularly graceful language, and the refined, enthusiastic, and cultivated mind there...

This first poetic attempt was well received.H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum thought the poems too closely resembled works by Byron and Wordsworth , but allowed that there were some verses which...

The Athenæum pronounced in fairly sympathetic tones that this volume bore a pathetic and direct reference upon the position and fortunes of its writer, alluding to the bereavements enforced by inexorable laws that denied Norton...

The Ladies and the rural ideal they embodied became famous in literary circles, an object of pilgrimage alike to the lesbian Anne Lister and to more conventional figures like William Wordsworth and the Irish poet...

Once an omnivorous reader, HM restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper as a poet whom I can read on Sunday. From...

Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition.John Armstrong in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...

Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)...

CH heads her volumes and chapters with quotations. Wordsworth is the most-used here; among other lines, he is cited for A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little farther...

In the introduction to the book of poems that was her first publication, MJ noted that poetry was a form of expression that comes easier to me than most others. This state of affairs was...

DW 's Alfoxden journal, written in close association with both William Wordsworth and Coleridge , filtered into the poetry of each. Her phrases surface in The Ancient Mariner (whose restless gossamers come from her restless...

There follows a series of six stories under the general title A Sketch from the Parlour of my Inn, three of which open with quotations from William Wordsworth . The final story in this...

Mary Berry took the lead in promoting the volume. Editing De Monfort for her British Theatre in 1808, Elizabeth Inchbald wrote of the hero as a lunatic possessing every vice which pride engenders, yet...