"attempted to express his response — seemingly the only poem he would write that troubled year, and arguably his last poem of any substance."" To William Wordsworth To William Wordsworth is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge written in 1807 as a response to poet William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem ""The Prelude"", called here ""that prophetic lay"". Wordsworth had recited that poem to his friend Coleridge personally. In his poem, Coleridge praises Wordsworth's understanding of both external and human nature, at the same time emphasizing Wordsworth's poetic achievement and downplaying Coleridge's own. Coleridge stayed with his friends William and Dorothy Wordsworth"
"Dove Cottage Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of ""plain living, but high thinking"". During this period, William wrote much of the poetry for which he is remembered today, including his """", ""Ode to Duty"", ""My Heart Leaps Up"" and ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"", together with parts of his autobiographical epic, ""The Prelude"". William Wordsworth married his wife Mary"
"Elizabeth Wordsworth Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840–1932) was the great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth. She was the daughter of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln. Her brothers were John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury, and Christopher Wordsworth, a liturgical scholar. Educated at home, she learned several modern languages as well as Latin and Greek though her knowledge of science and mathematics was meagre. She was the founding Principal (1879–1909) of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford as a college for female undergraduates, on Norham Gardens in North Oxford. In 1886 she inherited some money from her father and founded St Hugh's College also in"
"found the Scottish Composer's Guild. His works, which number over 100, are largely tonal and Romantic in style. He helped form the Society of Scottish Composers. He died at Kingussie in Scotland. William Wordsworth (composer) William Brocklesby Wordsworth (17 December 1908 – 10 March 1988) was an English composer. Wordsworth was born in London, a descendant of the poet Wordsworth's brother. He studied harmony and counterpoint under George Oldroyd from 1921 to 1931, continuing his study with Donald Francis Tovey at Edinburgh University from 1934 to 1936. In anticipation of conscientious objection he voluntarily began work on the land in"
"William Wordsworth (composer) William Brocklesby Wordsworth (17 December 1908 – 10 March 1988) was an English composer. Wordsworth was born in London, a descendant of the poet Wordsworth's brother. He studied harmony and counterpoint under George Oldroyd from 1921 to 1931, continuing his study with Donald Francis Tovey at Edinburgh University from 1934 to 1936. In anticipation of conscientious objection he voluntarily began work on the land in 1939, and this role was later made a condition of exemption from military service by his tribunal. He lived in England until 1961 when he moved to Inverness-shire; in 1966, he helped"
"L'ulf, Lyulph, Ligulf), the ancestral owner of the land, from whom the lake, Ullswater, may also be named. William Wordsworth walked through the park at Gowbarrow with his sister Dorothy on 15 April 1802. She was struck by the daffodils growing on the west side of Gowbarrow, beside the shore in Glencoyne Bay, and in her ""Grasmere Journal"" she wrote: 'When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side ... I never saw daffodils so beautiful ...' Her words inspired William to write his poem, ""I wandered lonely as a"
"Wordsworth frequently stayed at Lowther Castle as many of his published letters are written from there. Wordsworth wrote several poems for William. Part of his verse about Lowther Castle is as follows: """"Lowther! in thy majestic Pile are seen ""Cathedral pomp and grace in apt accord"" ""With the baronial castle’s sterner mien"""" Lady Augusta Lonsdale, William’s wife, was also a patron of the arts and she kept an album in which some of the poets visiting Lowther Castle wrote verse. Wordsworth wrote a long poem in her honour in the album which has been included in his published works. Robert"
"a number of poems. Among the English romantic movement writers none is better known than William Wordsworth's short 1804 poem ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" which has become linked in the popular mind with the daffodils that form its main image. Wordsworth also included the daffodil in other poems. Yet the description given of daffodils by his sister, Dorothy is just as poetic, if not more so, just that her poetry was prose and appears almost an unconscious imitation of the first section of the Homeric ""Hymn to Demeter"" (see Greek culture, above). Among their contemporaries, Keats refers to"
"with his wife, Mary Hutchinson, and sister Dorothy at Town End, in Grasmere in England's Lake District. Mary contributed what Wordsworth later said were the two best lines in the poem, recalling the ""tranquil restoration"" of ""Tintern Abbey"", Wordsworth was aware of the appropriateness of the idea of daffodils which “flash upon that inward eye” because in his 1815 version he added a note commenting on the ""flash"" as an ""ocular spectrum"". Coleridge in ""Biographia Literaria"" of 1817, while he acknowledged the concept of ""visual spectrum"" as being ""well known"", described Wordsworth's (and Mary's) lines, amongst others, as ""mental bombast""."
"We Are Seven ""We are Seven"" is a poem written by William Wordsworth and published in his ""Lyrical Ballads"". It describes a discussion between an adult poetic speaker and a ""little cottage girl"" about the number of brothers and sisters who dwell with her. The poem turns on the question of whether to account two dead siblings as part of the family. Wordsworth claimed that the idea for ""We are Seven"" came to him while travelling alone across England in October 1793 after becoming separated from his friend, William Calvert. This solitude with nature he claimed encouraged him to reach"
"1802, Wordsworth had shunned the sonnet form, but his sister Dorothy's recital of Milton's sonnets had ""fired him"" and he went on to write some 415 in all. ""It is a beauteous evening"" is the only ""personal"" sonnet he wrote at this time; others written in 1802 were political in nature and ""Dedicated to Liberty"" in the 1807 collection. The simile ""quiet as a nun / Breathless with adoration"" is often cited as an example of how a poet achieves effects. On the one hand ""breathless"" reinforces the placid evening scene Wordsworth is describing; on the other hand it suggests"
"Dora Wordsworth Dorothy ""Dora"" Wordsworth (16 August 1804 – 9 July 1847) was the only surviving daughter of William Wordsworth (1770–1850). Her infancy inspired Wordsworth to write ""Address to My Infant Daughter"" in her honour. As an adult, she is further immortalised by him in the 1828 poem ""The Triad"", along with Edith Southey and Sara Coleridge, daughters of her father's fellow Lake Poets. In 1843, at the age of 39, Dora Wordsworth married Edward Quillinan against her father's wishes. Throughout her life, she formed intense romantic attachments to both genders, the most significant being her friendship with Maria Jane"
"journals, letters, and poems were published posthumously), but she provided much of the inspiration for her brother William's work. There was a certain amount of additional irony involved in the 'School's' perception by readers, who were inspired, upon reading the poetry, to visit the area, thus helping to destroy, in the mind of Wordsworth at least, the very thing that made the Lakes special (although he himself ended up writing one of the best guides to the region). In addition, many of the first and second generation practitioners of Romantic poetry had a complex and not entirely easy relationship with"
"To a Butterfly ""To a Butterfly"" is a lyric poem written by William Wordsworth at Town End, Grasmere, in 1802. It was first published in the collection ""Poems in Two Volumes"" in 1807. Wordsworth wrote two poems addressing a butterfly, of which this is the first and best known. In the poem, he recalls how he and his sister Dorothy would chase butterflies as children when they were living together in Cockermouth, before they were separated following their mother's death in 1778 when he was barely eight years old. The 'Emmeline' of the poem is Wordsworth's sister Dorothy. The day"
"amounts to free verse rather than the tightly disciplined sonnet form that so attracted Wordsworth. Caroline, born December 1792 (baptised 15 December), was Wordsworth's daughter by Annette Vallon (1766–1841), daughter of a surgeon at Blois, with whom Wordsworth had evidently entered into a relationship while visiting France during the Revolution in 1792. The subsequent war with England had put aside any hopes of marriage and it was only during the brief Peace of Amiens in 1802 that Wordsworth was able to visit and to see his daughter for the first time, though he and Annette had exchanged letters in the"
"Wordsworth, the sister of Romantic poet William Wordsworth, who wrote disparagingly: Never did I see such a miserable, such wretched place, – long rooms with ranges of beds, no other furniture except benches, or perhaps one or two crazy chairs, the floors far dirtier than an ordinary house could be if it were never washed. With length of time the fire was kindled and after another hour of waiting, supper came, a shoulder of mutton so hard that it was impossible to chew the little flesh that might have been scraped off the bones. However 100 years later, standards had"
"the Lakes (apart from Wordsworth). ""For the most part other Romantic poets either struggle with a Lake Poet identity or come to define themselves against what the Lakes seem to offer in poetic terms."" For Wordsworth, who settled at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy after some years of wandering, the Lakes became bound up with his identity as a poet. Born and brought up on the fringes of the Lake District (at Cockermouth and Penrith), Wordsworth came back to the area in December 1799 and settled into a 'poetic retirement' within his 'native mountains.' Although Wordsworth did not"
"The Sparrow's Nest ""The Sparrows Nest"" is a lyric poem written by William Wordsworth at Town End, Grasmere, in 1801. It was first published in the collection ""Poems in Two Volumes"" in 1807. The poem is a moving tribute to Wordsworth's sister Dorothy, recalling their early childhood together in Cockermouth before they were separated following their mother's death in 1778 when he was barely eight years old. The 'Emmeline' of the poem is his sister Dorothy. The poem itself was placed in a section of ""Poems in Two Volumes"" entitled ""Moods of my Mind"", in which he grouped together his"
"Although Dorothy Wordsworth wrote no poetry of her own, she provided much of the inspiration for her brother William's. There was a certain amount of additional irony involved in the 'School's' perception by readers, who were inspired, upon reading the poetry, to visit the area, thus helping to destroy, in the mind of Wordsworth at least, the very thing that made the Lakes special (although he himself ended up writing one of the best guides to the region). In addition, many of the first and second generation practitioners of Romantic poetry had a complex and not entirely easy relationship with"
"John Wadsworth or his half brother Capt. Joseph Wadsworth of Charter Oak fame. William Wadsworth (patriarch) William Wadsworth (26 February 1594 [poss.] Long Buckby, England - 15 October 1675 Hartford, Connecticut) was an early pioneer of New England, a founder of Hartford, Connecticut and the patriarch of numerous and prominent Wadsworth descendants of North America, including the poet Ezra Pound. William's exact origins have challenged descendants and researchers over the centuries. Recent researchers have postulated that the William Wadsworth, who is born 1594 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England and baptized on 26 February 1594, the son of William and Elizabeth"
"Willie Wilde William Charles Kingsbury Wilde (26 September 1852 – 13 March 1899) was an Irish journalist and poet of the Victorian era and the older brother of Oscar Wilde. Willie was the oldest son born into an Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Wilde (née Elgee) (her pseudonym being 'Speranza'). Their second son, Oscar, was born in the same house in 1854. Jane Wilde was a successful writer, being a poet for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848 and a lifelong Irish nationalist. Sir William was Ireland's leading Oto-Ophthalmologic"
"William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ""Lyrical Ballads"" (1798). Wordsworth's ""magnum opus"" is generally considered to be ""The Prelude"", a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as ""the poem to Coleridge"". Wordsworth was Britain's poet laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. The second of"
"in the song ""Daffodils,"" which concludes the first act. Lippa mentioned this in a video created by Broadway.com in the same year. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" (also commonly known as ""Daffodils"") is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is Wordsworth's most famous work. The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a ""long belt"" of daffodils. Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account), it was first published in 1807 in ""Poems in Two"
"the piece [...] The Poem fails in the highest gifts of the poet's mind Imagination in the true sense of the word, and knowledge of human Nature and the human heart. There is nothing that shows the hand of the great Master"". He followed this with a letter on 29 July 1805 saying ""Southey's mind does not seem strong enough to draw the picture of a Hero. The character of Madoc is often very insipid and contemptible [...] In short, according to my notion, the character is throughout languidly conceived"". Dorothy Wordsworth, William's sister, wrote on 11 June 1805 to"
"Alleluia, hearts to heaven and voices raise'. With William Cooke, a Canon of Chester, Wordsworth edited for the Henry Bradshaw Society the early 15th century ""Ordinale Sarum"" of Clement Maydeston, but the work did not appear in print until 1901, several years after the death of both editors. In 1838 Wordsworth married Susanna Hartley Frere (d. 1884) and they had seven children. The elder son, John (1843–1911), was Bishop of Salisbury, founder of Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, and author of ""Fragments of Early Latin"" (1874); the eldest daughter, Elizabeth (1840–1932), was the first principal (in 1879) of Lady Margaret Hall,"
"Wordsworth was living near Grasmere with his sister and collaborator Dorothy Wordsworth, his sister-in-law, his wife, and their four small children. A fifth child was born to them in 1810. Several commentators have suggested that Wordsworth agreed to write text for a new book of engravings because he needed money, a suggestion supported by Wordsworth's scathing description of the engravings in an 1810 letter to Lady Beaumont: ""The drawings, or etchings, or whatever they may be called are ... intolerable. You will receive from them that sort of disgust which I do from bad poetry ... They will please many"
"childhood friend, later that year. The cottage became their first marital home, still shared with William's sister Dorothy and now also with Mary's sister Sara. William and Mary's first three children were born in the cottage, John (1803), Dora (1804) and Thomas (1806). Dorothy kept a remarkable journal during the family's years at Dove Cottage. The journal was published in 1897 as ""The Grasmere Journal"", providing intimate details of the family's daily life and of their visitors. Wordsworth often took poetic inspiration from his sister Dorothy's journal. An entry in her journal from 1802, remarking upon daffodils near Ullswater, was"
"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ""It is a beauteous evening, calm and free"" is a sonnet by William Wordsworth written at Calais in August 1802. It was first published in the collection ""Poems, in Two Volumes"" in 1807, appearing as the nineteenth poem in a section entitled 'Miscellaneous sonnets'. The sonnet describes an evening walk on the beach with his nine-year-old daughter Caroline Vallon. Wordsworth reflects that if his young daughter is seemingly unaffected by the majesty of the scene it is because, being young, she is naturally at one with nature. Until that Friday 21 May"
"most deeply felt lyrics. Others included ""To a Butterfly"", a childhood recollection of chasing butterflies with Dorothy, and ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"", closely based on an entry in Dorothy's journal following a walk together and an example of the line ""She gave me eyes, she gave me ears"" in the poem. The Sparrow's Nest ""The Sparrows Nest"" is a lyric poem written by William Wordsworth at Town End, Grasmere, in 1801. It was first published in the collection ""Poems in Two Volumes"" in 1807. The poem is a moving tribute to Wordsworth's sister Dorothy, recalling their early childhood"
"found accommodations in the town of Ratzeburg in Schleswig-Holstein, which was less expensive but still socially vibrant. The impoverished Wordsworth, however, could neither afford to follow Coleridge nor provide for himself and his sister in Hamburg; the siblings instead moved to moderately priced accommodations in Goslar in Lower Saxony, Germany. Between October 1798 and February 1799, Wordsworth worked on the first draft of the ""Lucy poems"" together with a number of other verses, including the ""Matthew poems"", ""Lucy Gray"" and ""The Prelude"". Coleridge had yet to join the siblings in Germany, and Wordsworth's separation from his friend depressed him. In"
"by Mary Henderson (née Wordsworth), William's great great granddaughter. It remains in the ownership of the Wordsworth family, and has been opened to the public since 1970. Rydal Mount Rydal Mount is a house in the small village of Rydal, near Ambleside in the English Lake District. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth from 1813 to his death in 1850. It is currently operated as a writer's home museum. Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in Cumberland in 1770, and knew the Lake District well from his childhood. He moved away to study at the"
"been shown in recent years in Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), William's sister, who ""was modest about her writing abilities, [but] she produced poems of her own; and her journals and travel narratives certainly provided inspiration for her brother."" In the past decades there has been substantial scholarly and critical work done on women poets of this period, both by make them available in print or online, and second, to assess them and position them within the literary tradition. Mary Shelley (1797–1851) is remembered as the author of ""Frankenstein"" (1818). The plot of this is said to have come from a waking"
"Life in Squares. Vanessa Bell Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf. Vanessa Stephen was the elder daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Duckworth. The family, including her sister Virginia, brothers Thoby (1880–1906) and Adrian (1883–1948), and half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth, lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Westminster, London. She was educated at home in languages, mathematics and history, and took drawing lessons from Ebenezer Cook before she attended Sir Arthur Cope's art school"