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Obituary: Christopher Wordsworth
; ...the Scholar Gipsy about Christopher Wordsworth, who contributed weekly...always simpler to ask Wordsworth than to look it up. The...suited each other well. Wordsworth could be waspish and quick...wearing an Old Rugbeian tie. Wordsworth tried to replenish his...and published in 1961. ...
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Wordsworth's eldest son: John Wordsworth and the intimations ode.
; John Wordsworth (1803-1875), the poet's...William's younger brother Christopher, earned Cambridge fellowships...power (1). Admittedly, John Wordsworth had his own strengths: he...was also tactless. After Wordsworth's death, twice John came...place, but John stayed. Wordsworth often found him ...
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Wordsworth's poetics of speech and language acquisition in Lyrical Ballads.(William Wordsworth)
; ...the cold, lonely winter of 1799, Wordsworth complained to Coleridge, I acquired...five years living as we have lived. Wordsworth continued. In short[,] sorry am I...249). And, as Dorothy explained to Christopher, their lack of funds prevented their...dialogues (EY 249). Learning a language, ...
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Wordsworth and the Ordnance Survey in Ireland: "dreaming o'er the map of things".(William Wordsworth)
; ...Quillinan, Dora's husband, and became godfather to Wordsworth's grandson. In late August, 1829, two years after their first meeting, Wordsworth began his first and only visit to Ireland. With...churches, the Wicklow mountains, Blackwater, and Cork (Wordsworth, Letters, 5.117-119). Of the landscape, ...
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Books: Immortality in the morning, dung later on Stephen Gill looks in vain for an enhanced sense of Wordsworth's poetry in Juliet Barker's exhaustively detailed study of his life
; ...Headstrong, charismatic and generally alienated, Wordsworth walked 2,000 miles across Europe, lived in revolutionary...load of Mr Olliff's dung. For 10 of these years Wordsworth was also writing the poems that maintain his place...as one of the big three of English poetry. But Wordsworth lived for ...
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William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories during the Industrial Revolution in England, 1750-1850.(Book Review)
; ...little to Wordsworth. While we have necessarily put Wordsworth in the background to take account of women writers...it is not likely that we will be finished with Wordsworth any time soon. Keay assumes an explicitly conservative...political stance in his book. One can of course read Wordsworth as ...
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Wordsworth and Shakespeare (1985).(William Wordsworth and William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
; ...manuscript, in Barron Field's unpublished memoir of Wordsworth. When Wordsworth found the passage from The Spirit of the Age quoted...feeling suggests that there was an intensity about Wordsworth's response to Shakespeare, modesty that it may...occasion recorded by Leigh Hunt and Cowden Clarke, ...
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John Wilson to William Wordsworth (1802): a new text.(Critical Essay)
; ...letter to Wordsworth praising the volume--to which Wordsworth replied [ William Wordsworth's Letter to John Wilson, 1802: A Corrected Version...Hayden, TWC, XVIII (1987)33-38]. This sensitivity to Wordsworth's poetic philosophy was rare at the time, and began...was always marked by Wilson's high ...
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Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply' and 'The Tables Turned.'.(works by poet William Wordsworth)
; ...message: He neither hears nor sees. In the poem, Wordsworth's synthetic vision collapses the differences between...Christ and in nature. The language of the poem links Wordsworth to Christ's disciplines and Matthew to the opposing...clear biblical echoes, dispels the possibility that Wordsworth may be ...
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Poetical Remains: Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century.(Buried Communities: Wordsworth and the Bonds of Mourning)(Book review)
; ...Mary Tighe and Felicia Hemans, Keats and Shelley, Wordsworth, Hood, Browning, and Tennyson. Readings of poetic...rewrite The Grave of a Poetess. The chapter on Wordsworth details how his low but honoured grave (157) in...discussion of the grave memorials and epitaphs for Wordsworth's children, Catharine ...
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