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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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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...
William Wordsworth
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (1770-1850), an early leader of romanticism in English poetry, ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature. William Wordsworth was born in Cookermouth, Cumberland...
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...
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the most marked characteristic of William's personality. At the age of...accomplished linguist. At the age of 3 William read English fluently; at 5 he...with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. At this time Hamilton's literary...
Bartram, John (1699–1777), botanist, father of William (1739–1823)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. William Bartram, the son of John and his...failing as a planter and a merchant, William followed his father's footsteps...English romantic writers such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In...
Sir William Watson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Stowey in 1797, and shortly thereafter William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved into...was not until his friendship with Wordsworth that he wrote his best poems. In 1798 Coleridge and Wordsworth jointly published the volume Lyrical...

Dictionary entries related to "William Wordsworth"

Wordsworth, William
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Wordsworth, William (1770–1850). Greatest of the Romantic poets for ‘the union of deep feeling with profound thought...
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...
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...
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...
Utopian Communities
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...for example, rejected the decaying Puritan lifestyle of New England's past in favor of the Romantic world of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. For transcendentalists, a higher reality lay behind that afforded by the senses...
Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...mind and tragicomical life. He was closely linked with the Romantic movement in literature, particularly with William Wordsworth, who wrote a sonnet to him, and with John Keats, painting portraits of both of them (NPG, London), and but...
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...
poetry
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible poetry ‘All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ (William Wordsworth, 1801). The distinction in modern literature between prose and poetry is difficult to apply to the Bible , but there is a tradition...
Constable, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...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...
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...

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Wordsworth, Joseph Johnson, and the Salisbury Plain poems.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Revolution, including many that Wordsworth admired: William Godwin, Mary Woll-stonecraft...critics. The story behind Wordsworth's Salisbury Plain poem...through Salisbury Plain, Wordsworth and William Calvert were involved in...
Wordsworth Variorum Archive.(archive of the poetry of William Wordsworth)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...text archive of the poetry of William Wordsworth. The WVA provides scholars...Volumes (1807) Poems, by William Wordsworth (in 2 vols, 1815) The White...1815. Poems, 1815 Poems by William Wordsworth: including Lyrical Ballads...
"Scorn not the sonnet": Pushkin and Wordsworth (1).(Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, William Wordsworth)
Magazine article from: Germano-Slavica; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...first encountered Wordsworth's sonnet in the...John Anthony and William Galignani, presumably...In this sonnet Wordsworth refutes such critics...from his edition of William Shakespeare because...except that, as William Hazlitt noted in The Spirit of the Age, Wordsworth "condemns all ...
"Scorn not the Sonnet": pushkin and wordsworth.(Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, William Wordsworth)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...first encountered Wordsworth's sonnet in the...John Anthony and William Galignani, presumably...In this sonnet Wordsworth refutes such critics...from his edition of William Shakespeare because...except that, as William Hazlitt noted in The Spirit of the Age, Wordsworth "condemns all ...
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...
Wordsworth's Poems of 1807 and the Haunting cry of Alice Fell.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...achievements. Like many of Wordsworth's poems, "Alice Fell...lawyer and acquaintance of the Wordsworth family was generous to "the...Robert" 15). As Dorothy Wordsworth explained in the Grasmere...Mr. Graham said he wished William had been with him the other...
The paradoxes of nature in Wordsworth and Coleridge.(William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...thought this must be a reference to William Wordsworth, and an indication that at the...on further investigation the "Mr Wordsworth" named in it turned out to be William's cousin, Robinson Wordsworth, who had risen to be Controller...
Our Will: A Presence That Disturbs.(criticism of William Wordsworth)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Tintern Abbey" 93-95) William Wordsworth's reputation seemed almost...they mostly kept on admiring Wordsworth--even when, as with Eliot...Arthur Beatty's 1922 study William Wordsworth: His Doctrine and Art in Their...
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...
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...