William Wordsworth

The connection between the male and the female poet was made by Maria Jane Jewsbury , who was a good friend of the family, Dora Wordsworth especially. Hemans brought one of her sons on the...

On this trip LHS added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , Samuel Rogers , Anna Maria Hall and her husband , and Jane and Thomas Carlyle

One of Mary Lamb 's bouts of madness seems to have been brought on by agitation about the break between Coleridge and theWordsworths .

For DW , the scanty education deemed suitable for females in the English provinces at this time was reinforced first by reading poetry, particularly Burns , with her brother William . Later she studied French...

Byron and Wordsworth were important poetic influences. Books that Elizabeth Barrett owned and kept until her death included Philip James Bailey 's Festus, A Poem, a major text of the spasmodic school, L. E. L.

Other poems are self-referential examinations of poetry and writing. The Recluse describes the inability of the contemporary poet to present in verse (like the unnamed William Wordsworth ) the rustic tale of a chance-met old...

The painter Van Gogh is a constant presence in this highly allusive novel, which takes Stephanie Potter, now Orton, through pregnancy and birth (while she tries to hold on to her former identity by reading...

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...

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

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...

AM 's associations with Aubrey de Vere , Patmore , and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

The title-page quotes William Wordsworth . This fairly conventional romance, in which MC has not yet begun to exploit her gift for local colour, uses its young heroine and narrator to look at the problems...

The first chapter-heading comes from one of Wordsworth 's Lucy poems; eighteenth-century poets are also quoted. Unattributed chapter-headings, as well as verses by characters in the novel, are probably by ES herself. The protagonist, Genevieve...

The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley , Soeur Monique of Wordsworth , An Unmarked Festival...

The title piece is a lyrical drama depicting, largely in the form of a conversation between two angels, the crucifixion of Christ. Among the accompanying pieces were several on literary personages or topics: To Mary Russell Mitford