Wordsworth

Born to an attorney in Northern England in 1770, William Wordsworth attended school at Hawkshead Grammar School in the Lake District and then St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1798, Wordsworth and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads, "which achieved a revolution in literary taste and sensibility." The book included Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" and Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." This entry comprises a biographical sketch of Wordsworth, an image of the poet, and two excerpts from his work. Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jwordsworth.htm
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Peter Landry notes, "The subjects I treat in my pages, while proceeding from my vocation (law) and avocation (history), go beyond and into a number of areas...." In fact, his online biographies include figures from law, philosophy, economics, science, history, and literature. He discusses English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in a twelve-part essay, in which he concludes, "Wordsworth's poems will live on no matter the observations, then and now: he rather thought they would. Relatively early in his career he was to write Lady Beaumount about the destiny of his poems." Landry's biography includes several related images. Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Wordsworth.htm
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Poets.org, the web site of the Academy of American Poets, comprises essays, interviews, poems, and audio clips by and about more than five hundred poets. The entry for William Wordsworth includes an image of the writer, a biography, a bibliography, the complete text of seven poems ("A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal," "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802," "My Heart Leaps Up," "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," "The Daffodils," "The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon," and "We Are Seven"), and Tom Thompson's article "The State of the Preface Address: On Wordsworth and Common Speech." Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/296
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Chapter V of Volume XI (The Period of the French Revolution) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-1921), examines English Romantic poet William Wordsworth's literary legacy. The material is arranged into twenty sections: The Influence of Rousseau, Wordsworth's Childhood, His Wanderings, The French Revolution, Dorothy Wordsworth, Friendship with Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth's Marriage, Ode to Duty, The Excursion, The White Doe of Rylstone, Laodamia, Sonnets; Later Years, The Ruined Cottage, His Poetry of Nature, There Was a Boy, Wordsworth and Shelley, Michael, The Lucy Poems, and His Description of the Moral Emotions. Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://www.bartleby.com/221/0501.html
 * __V. William Wordsworth__**

Born in April 1770 in Cockermouth, England, Romantic poet William Wordsworth attended grammar school in Hawkshead and, eventually, St. John's College, Cambridge, "where he was not a notable student, but inevitably matured in thought and sophistication." With Samuel Taylor Coleridge ("The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"), Wordsworth published his first volume, Lyrical Poems, in 1798. This site features an image of the poet and a photograph of his headstone, as well as links to images of key sites in Wordsworth's personal history (e.g., his childhood home, Dove Cottage, and St. Mary's Church). Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://www.visitcumbria.com/wilword.htm
 * __William Wordsworth in Cumbria__**

Humanities Web comprises such resources as biographies, timelines, chronologies, images, electronic texts of primary sources, articles, and recommendations for further research and reading, all of which "show the interconnections, the web, the links, between history, the arts, and culture--and how each plays off and influences the others." The entry on William Wordsworth, one of the great English poets and a leader in the romantic movement, features an image, brief biography, chronology, quotations, and the complete text of a selection of his poems. According to Wordsworth, "With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things." Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=i&ID=1
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An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video, and art, the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database comprises entries that serve as resources in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings. The works in the database were annotated because of their value in medical humanities. Two poems ("Resolution and Independence" and "To, in Her Seventieth Year") by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth are annotated. Each of the entries for these works includes a summary and commentary, as well as the key words by which the work may be searched. Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/People?action=view&id=2259
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Representative Poetry Online features fifty-eight of William Wordsworth's poems, including "Character of the Happy Warrior," "I Travelled among Unknown Men," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," and "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways." This entry also includes Wordsworth's "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (1798), in which he noted, "It is the honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind. The evidence of this fact is to be sought, not in the writings of Critics, but in those of Poets themselves." Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/363.html
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Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers, maintains a web complement to Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. The entry on William Wordsworth observes, "[H]e appeared at a time of outworn traditions and exhausted conventions, and refreshed the current of poetry by reminding his contemporaries of its need to renew itself in both content and manner of expression." The material is arranged under four main headings: Biography (Introduction, Early Years, Literary Career, and Legacy), Critical Archive (Critical Overview), Bibliography (Principal Works, Selected Modern Editions, Selected Biography, and Selected Criticism), and Links. Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_kennedy_lfpd_9/0,9130,1490018-,00.html
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"Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished," believed William Wordsworth. This guide to the great Romantic poets comprises an image, links to ten related Guardian and Observer features and reviews, and a number of facts about the author arranged under such headings as "Critical verdict" ("He pioneered the use of ordinary speech in poetry and, going against the fashion for heroic couplets, experimented with various stanza forms and irregular odes--for this alone, modern poetry owes him a huge debt"), "Now read on," and "Recommended biography." Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,983575,00.html
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By the time of his death in 1850, Romantic poet William Wordsworth had, according to this site, "produced some of English poetry's greatest works and influenced future generations of poets." Wordsworth spent most of his life in the Lake District of Northern England, the landscapes of which inspired his work. In addition to images and other resources, this site features an online primer, "Wordsworth and the Romantics." The sections include Introduction: William Wordsworth, Wordsworth's Themes, Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, Wordsworth's "Daffodils," Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth and Dorothy, Other Major Romantics, Thomas De Quincey, and Romanticism. Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/
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William Wadsworth was an English and poet that made a defining impact on the romantic era. Most of his writings clearly reflect his love of nature and his time spent in Lake Country. Locate his works on this site chronologically or by beginning line. View a bibliographic record of his entire collection for pertinent publishing information. Topic: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850 URL: http://www.bartleby.com/145/index.html
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You can either view this online exhibit about Henry Wordsworth Longfellow as a slideshow or you can view it as a list. Learn about the life and work of the man considered to be one of America's best-known poet in the 19th century. Find out about his studies and about his time as a professor. Longfellow's works and his style as a poet are discussed and there are several paintings of him. The site tells why Longfellow stopped working. Topic: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,--1807-1882 URL: http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Features?t=fp&feat=267&supst=Exhibits
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This web site provides a very detailed look at one of the leading historical figures in poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. You will find his biography that describes his youth, career and friendship with another leading poet of his time, William Wordsworth. There is information about Coleridge's poems and the impact they had on poetry style during this time in history. The web site continues onto a second page discussing many of Coleridge's most famous works. Topic: Poets, English--Biography URL: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563578/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge.html
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Before poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge died he wrote the words he wanted on his grave marker. See a photograph of his grave stone and read his last poem. This historical poet contributed greatly to the world of poetry. Get a glimpse inside his life through this web page. There are facts about his friendship with William Wordsworth, his marriage, his addiction to Opium and much more. There is also a portrait of the poet and a link to one of his poems. Topic: Poets, English--Biography URL: http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/coleridge.htm
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Enjoy some sonnets from Ireland, starting with Eleanor Alexander. "Give me your tenderest laughter earth-bound still, and when I die you shall not want to weep," quoted from her poem, "Now." Most of the sonnets here are from 19th century poets. Their poetry shows the influence of Wordsworth, but has a distinctive Irish diction. Enjoy reading sonnets by John Swanswick, Standish James O'Grady, and Sir Aubrey De Vere. A link to an essay about William Butler Yeats is available. Topic: Sonnets URL: http://www.sonnets.org/ireland.htm
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This display of information details the many sides of Toussaint Louverture (1744-1803) as a defender and martyr of African Independence in the Americas. Toussaint was a self-educated slave that joined the black rebellion to liberate the slaves. He rose to power and became the leader of the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution. Additional reports are available in these sections, literature and the arts, historical essays, western Imperialism, John Maxwell on Haiti, and a poem by Wordsworth. Topic: Toussaint, Louverture,--1743?-1803 URL: http://www.nathanielturner.com/toussainttable.htm
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Sir William Gerald Golding was born in Saint Columb, Cornwall, England, in 1911. He studied literature at Brasenose College, Oxford, and served in the Royal Navy during World War II. Golding then taught at Bishop Wordsworth's School until 1961. The Nobel Laureate (1983) and recipient of the Booker Prize (1980) is perhaps best remembered for his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), "which details the adventures of British schoolboys stranded on an island in the Pacific who descend into barbaric behavior." This site includes a free online study guide for the novel. Topic: Golding, William,--1911- URL: http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_william_golding.html
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The relationship between Gothic literature and the novelists and poets from the age of Romanticism is the focus of this site, which provides a look at the Gothic novels read by the major writers from 1780-1830. Reading lists are provided for the following poets and novelists: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. In addition, comments about the novels are available from many of the writers. Topic: Shelley, Percy Bysshe,--1792-1822 URL: http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~dougt/gothic.htm
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Use this online concordance to help you with literary studies. Select a Victorian, British, Irish, or American author. Once you select the author, you will be able to choose one of their works. Type a word or phrase in the query box, and the concordance will help you locate the word or phrase in the work you selected. A list includes over 100 authors, and has the dates of their births and deaths. Authors included in the concordance are Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather, T.S. Elliott, William Wordsworth, and many more. Topic: Literature URL: http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/index.html
 * __The Victorian Literary Study Archive__**