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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth 1770-1850, English poet, b. Cockermouth, Cumberland. One of the great English poets, he was a leader of the romantic movement in England. Life and Works In 1791 he graduated from Cambridge and traveled abroad. While in France he fell in love with Annette Vallon, who bor... Read more
William Bartram
William Bartram 1739-1823, American naturalist, b. Philadelphia; son of John Bartram. He is known chiefly for his Travels (1791), in which he describes his journey (1773-77) through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida and areas to the west. His book vividly portrays the plants and wildlife of the... Read more
Sir William Watson
Sir William Watson 1858-1935, English poet. His first great success was Wordsworth's Grave (1890), followed by a meditative elegy on Tennyson, Lachrymae Musarum (1892). He is also remembered for sonnets and lyrics. He was knighted in 1917. ... Read more
Grasmere
Grasmere village, Cumbria, NW England, in the Lake District, near Lake Grasmere. Dove Cottage was the home of William Wordsworth from 1799 to 1808; the Wordsworth museum is also there, and the Jerwood Center is nearby. The Wordsworth family and the writer Hartley Coleridge are buried in the chu... Read more
Cumbria
Cumbria county (1991 pop. 486,900), 2,635 sq mi (6,826 sq km), extreme NW England. The county stretches from the Morecambe Bay to Soloway Firth along the Irish Sea coast. It includes the Lake District , comprised of a series of volcanic rock and slate mountain peaks and lake-filled valleys. It als... Read more
Lake District
Lake District region of mountains and lakes, c.30 mi (50 km) in diameter, NW England. It includes the Cumbrian Mts. and part of the Furness peninsula. The district comprises 15 lakes, among them Ullswater, Windermere, Derwentwater, and Bassenthwaite; several beautiful falls; and some of England's h... Read more
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, English poet and man of letters, b. Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire; one of the most brilliant, versatile, and influential figures in the English romantic movement. Early Life The son of a clergyman, Coleridge was a precocious, dreamy child. He attended Chri... Read more
poet laureate
poet laureate , title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse. It is an outgrowth of the medieval English custom of having versifiers and minstrels in the king's retinue, and of the later royal patronage of poets, such as Chaucer and Sp... Read more
criticism
criticism the interpretation and evaluation of literature and the arts. It exists in a variety of literary forms: dialogues (Plato, John Dryden), verse (Horace, Alexander Pope), letters (John Keats), essays (Matthew Arnold, W. H. Auden), and treatises (Philip Sydney, Percy Bysshe Shelley). There ar... Read more
diary
diary [Lat.,=day], a daily record of events and observations. As distinguished from memoir (an account of events placed in perspective by the author long after they have occurred), the diary derives its impact from its immediacy, requiring each generation of readers to supply its own perspective. T... Read more

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William Wordsworth
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition William Wordsworth 1770-1850, English poet, b. Cockermouth...Revolution had strongly influenced Wordsworth, and he returned (1792) to England...Bromwich (1999); G. McMaster, William Wordsworth: A Critical Anthology (1973...
Wordsworth, William
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography William Wordsworth Born: April 7, 1770 Cookermouth...Westmorland, England English poet William Wordsworth was an early leader of romanticism...English literature. His early years William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cookermouth...
Wordsworth, Dorothy
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771–1855), was the sister of William Wordsworth . She settled with William in 1795, and from that time they lived together, through William's marriage until his death. After a short time in Dorset they...
Christopher Wordsworth
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Christopher Wordsworth 1774-1846, English clergyman...and writer; youngest brother of William Wordsworth. He was master of Trinity College...1810). His second son, Charles Wordsworth, 1806-92, became a prelate in...
William Hazlitt
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...in England. Eight-year-old William wrote his father that it would...reunited at Wem in Shropshire, where William grew happily until 1793, when...Coleridge in Somerset, meeting William Wordsworth. That fall he began painting in...
William Cullen Bryant
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...American poet and newspaper editor William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) helped...mid-19th-century America. William Cullen Bryant was born on Nov...influence of the romantic British poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In...
William Bartram
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...accounts. On his father's death William began joint management of the...his brother John. By 1791 William had managed the Philadelphia...inspiration to romantic poets such as Wordsworth and Coleridge (whose Kubla...scope of their father, but William clearly inherited his father...
Hazlitt, William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Hazlitt, William (1778–1830), critic...influences of S. T. Coleridge , W. Wordsworth , and C. Lamb turned him away from...whether in Shakespeare or in W. Scott and Wordsworth; this tension between rational enlightenment...
Golding, William
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography William Golding Born: September 19...Nobel Prize in Literature, William Golding is among the most...returned to his post at Bishop Wordsworth's School in 1945, he began...Nobel Prize in Literature. William Golding died in England in...
Cowper, William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Cowper, William (1731–1800), was educated...Yardley-Oak’ (admired by Wordsworth ), the verses ‘On the Loss...links that of James Thomson with that of Wordsworth . He was a champion of the oppressed...

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Wordsworth, William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Wordsworth, William (1770–1850), English poet. In 1798 he and S. T...x2018;Lines written… above Tintern Abbey’. Wordsworth's aim in this collection was to bring out the deeper spiritual meaning...
Wordsworth, William (Brocklesby)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Wordsworth, William (Brocklesby) ( b London, 1908; d Kingussie, Inverness-shire, 1988). Eng. composer. His 2nd sym. won Edinburgh Fest...
Bartram, William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Bartram, William ( b . Kingsessing, Pennsylvania, 9 April...22 July 1823) botany, ornithology. William Bartram, third son of the botanist John...working and going to meeting. Samples of William ’ s work were sent to Peter...
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...to London, she became part of a group of radical and progressive thinkers who included William Godwin , Thomas Paine , William Blake , and William Wordsworth . In 1796 she became Godwin's lover, and they married the next year—only...
Paul Revere's Account of His Ride (1775)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...clock on 18 April 1775. He and his two companions, William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott, were detained by...but it was not until 1861 and the publication of William Wordsworth Longfellow's commemorative poem in the Atlantic...
Romanticism in Literature and Politics
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...in these countries. In literature, criticism, and philosophy, it was standard to regard William Blake (1757 – 1827), William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850), and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) in England...
Childhood and Child Rearing
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...idealized childhood innocence and empathized with childhood experience, as did William Blake (1757 – 1827) in his Songs of Innocence (1789) and William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) in his Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections...
Arthur
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...was set to music by Purcell . Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth wrote some Arthurian material, but the boom began...Other Arthurian writers include Algernon Swinburne, William Morris , Matthew Arnold , and (satirically) the...
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...Poet and thinker. Born at Ottery St Mary in Devon, he studied (somewhat chaotically) at Cambridge where he met William Wordsworth. With him he published Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Already he had, with Robert Southey, attempted to set up a communal...
Constable, John
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...in his own words—of ‘light, dews, breezes, bloom’. Just as his contemporary William Wordsworth rejected what he called the ‘poetic diction’ of his predecessors, so Constable turned away...

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William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories during the Industrial Revolution in England, 1750-1850.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; Mark Keay, William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories during...Roe, The Politics of Nature: William Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries, 2nd...conjunction with the texts and life of William Wordsworth, Roe rescues poems like "Tintern...
William Wordsworth, Landscape Architect.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...landscape architects. Wordsworth was a contemporary of...the poet and gardener William Shenstone who created...it was understood in Wordsworth's time. The term...eight years after Wordsworth's death, which may...century designers like William Kent, Lancelot Brown...
William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage (Volume I: 1793-1820).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; Robert Woof, ed. William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage (Volume I: 1793-1820) (Routledge...1092 $295.00 A reviewer of Robert Woof's monumental William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage (Volume I: 1793-1820) may perhaps...
Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont (1800-1808).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; Richard E. Matlak, Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont (1800-1808) (Univ...dolorous but apt title, Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont (1800...
Richard E. Matlak. Deep Distresses. William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Deep Distresses. William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth...claiming that "Wordsworth has built into the...shepherd partly as a William-figure, his son...reference to John Wordsworth. Why was John so important to William, even preternaturally...
Profile: Estate of English poet William Wordsworth
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 5/10/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Profile: Estate of English poet William Wordsworth Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11...The 18th century English poet William Wordsworth drew much of his inspiration...morning of March 27th, 1802, William Wordsworth dug into a fresh pile of dung...
EXPLORING TIME-BINDING FORMULATIONS WITH WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Magazine article from: et Cetera; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...or epiphany, or perhaps what William Wordsworth would have described as a "spot...nourished and invisibly repaired; (Wordsworth, The Prelude, lines 208-215...January. In many of his works, Wordsworth anticipates a number of fundamental...
J.H. Reynolds re-Echoes the Wordsworthian reputation: "Peter Bell," remaking the work and mocking the man.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...the business of parodying Wordsworth's poetry took off after the publication of Poems of William Wordsworth (1807)--his first major...largely at the x 807 Poems of William Wordsworth--and his footnotes--a...
Exploring time-binding formulations with William Wordsworth.(Education)
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...or epiphany, or perhaps what William Wordsworth would have described as a "spot...nourished and invisibly repaired; (Wordsworth, The Prelude, lines 208-215...January. In many of his works, Wordsworth anticipates a number of fundamental...
David Haney, William Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words ; David Haney, William Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation...is grounded in what Harley calls Wordsworth's "incarnational rhetoric...usually restricted. I argue that Wordsworth's incarnational poetics does not...