William Wordsworth

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Standard Name: Wordsworth, William
Three-quarter-length painting of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842, known as "Wordsworth on Helvellyn" (though it was painted in London, with the mountain scene done from memory). Haydon was responding to a poem Wordsworth wrote for him; Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), alerted by Mary Russell Mitford, wrote a poem about the painting. Wordsworth stands tall, arms folded and gazing downwards, showing his beaky face and bald head framed in remaining white hair and sideburns. National Portr

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Leisure and Society Hannah More
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.
qtd. in
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
90
From...
Literary responses Caroline Bowles
A few months after publication, The Birth-Day was read with very much pleasure by the William WordsworthWordsworth clan.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
122
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell Mitford discussed it in an exchange of letters. While Mitford thought...
Literary responses Caroline Bowles
After CB 's death, the Gentleman's Magazine called The Birth-Daya charming series of pictures of her youth.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(September 1854): 309
It thought comparison with Wordsworth 's The Prelude appropriate, observing that Bowles's work preceded...
Literary responses Mary Bryan
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
qtd. in
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.
there...
Literary responses Maria Jane Jewsbury
After reading Phantasmagoria, Wordsworth forwarded it to Robert Southey to review. MJJ 's satire of Southey in First Efforts in Criticism prompted the Poet Laureate to decline. He wrote: The best advice [I] could...
Literary responses Ann Hawkshaw
In a review for the Athenæum, George Walter Thornbury stated abruptly that AH 's collection has at least two merits,—it has no Preface and it has a purpose. Finding that the sonnets do not...
Literary responses Seamus Heaney
Motion mentions the famous comparison of Heaney with Yeats , and observes that they shared a commitment to the matter of Ireland, but that Heaney eschews Yeats's cloudy symbols for an investment in the...
Literary responses Caroline Norton
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...
Literary responses Jean Plaidy
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 ...
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
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...
Literary responses Emma Frances Brooke
A short review in The Academy classified the poem as a domestic epic, which the reviewer considered almost a new genre.This reviewer cited the influence on the author of Wordsworth and the Dora...
Literary responses Laetitia Pilkington
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote in her copy of the London reprint of LP 's Memoirs, as good Poetry as Pope s [sic].
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, and Laetitia Pilkington. “Annotation”. The Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.
Wordsworth also admired it.
Literary responses Jennifer Johnston
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...
Literary responses Anne Finch
Barbara McGovern has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope 's hostility to AF . In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
102ff
She also addressed...
Literary responses Lydia Howard Sigourney
Edgar Allan Poe , reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS did too much borrowing: from Hannah More , William Cowper , William Wordsworth , and Byron . Critic Emily Stipes Watts

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