William Wordsworth

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

The third volume of Miss Pen and her Niece contained a short story, Sir Eustace de Lucie, a rewriting of Wordsworth 's poem The Horn of Egremont Castle. Set in the medieval period...

Again, ATR 's stay at Chateau Bréquerecque, Boulogne, in 1854 provided the basis for the novel's setting.She takes chapter epigraphs from a wide range of folk and literary sources, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Wordsworth .

A Fugue in Time has three epigraphs: a description of the simultaneous, independent melodies present in Bach 's fugues; eighteen lines from T. S. Eliot 's still fairly recent East Coker (from Home is where...

The title, which comes from a sonnet by William Wordsworth , seems to relate less to its context there than to the general irony of the presumed quietness of nuns, who in this story have...

Below Loughrigg is largely a localised collection, haunted by the presence of Wordsworth .

This interesting novel is a kind of rake's progress that seems to speak against the system of primogeniture.The hero (and first-person narrator) is that familiar figure, an upper-class child spoiled by his parents. He had...

William Enfield quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy . Her volume...

The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...

To the Writer of a Poem on a Bridge speaks to Wordsworth 's Upon Westminster Bridge. The first stanza reads: Dear builder of the Bridge, with thee I stood
And watched the waters...

The title-page quotes William Wordsworth . At the beginning of the collection a male narrator, London-born with a Welsh mother, travels after his mother's death to Chirk (her native place). The tales' framework is desultory...

The title, condensed from two lines in Wordsworth 's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, alludes to the dimming and flattening of once-acute sensations. One of these poems says that Love can never be...

The novel contains particularly sophisticated subplots, including the intense rivalry between Burden's teenaged children, and Elizabeth's and Wexford's parallel fears of growing old. As usual in RR 's work, the novel gives an important role...

One of these stories, The Authoress is notable as a künstlerroman and a defence of GA 's ambitions as a writer. It is the tale of frustrated romance between a young woman writer and a...

The collection is dedicated to her brother, William Rowan Hamilton .William Wordsworth thought highly of her writing. In a letter dated 10 January 1833, he wrote to her, arguing that women should...