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Fay, Jessica. "A Question of Loyalty: Wordsworth and the Beaumonts, Catholic Emancipation and Ecclesiastical Sketches." Romanticism 22, no. 1 (2016): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0253.

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In the Roman Catholic Emancipation debate, William Wordsworth took the opposite view to his friend and patron Sir George Beaumont. Whilst Wordsworth's position as a committed anti-emancipationist is well-known, this essay explores the Beaumonts’ Catholic heritage and their political allegiances. This contextual material provides a backdrop for a reading of a previously un-noted document that Lady Beaumont sent to the Wordsworths in 1809: ‘An account of an English Hermit’. This pamphlet, by an unknown Anglican clergyman (Thomas Barnard), describes the life of an unknown nonjuror (Thomas Gardine

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Beattie-Smith, Gillian. "Dorothy Wordsworth: Tours of Scotland, 1803 and 1822." Northern Scotland 10, no. 1 (2019): 20–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nor.2019.0167.

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Dorothy Wordsworth's name, writing, and identity as an author are frequently subsumed in the plural of ‘The Wordsworths’, in her relationship as the sister of the poet, William Wordsworth. But Dorothy was a Romantic author in her own right. She wrote poetry, narratives, and journals. Nine of her journals have been published. In 1803, and again in 1822, she toured Scotland and recorded her journeys in Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland and Journal of My Second Tour in Scotland. This article considers Dorothy's two Scottish journals. It discusses them in the light of historical and literar

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Choi, Taesook. "Wordsworth's “The Ruined Cottage” and English Romanticism: Focusing on Nature, Suffering and the Meditative Mind." British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea 150 (September 30, 2023): 85–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.21297/ballak.2023.150.85.

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This paper explores how Wordsworth’s “The Ruined Cottage” embodies and directs the course that Romantic poetry will take, predating his poetic world, the meaning of his poetry, and the essence of poetic theory proclaimed in the Preface to his poetry collection, Lyrical Ballads. In doing so, this paper shall focus on the representation of nature and suffering, considering the dramatic frame as the focal point through which we can glimpse the transformation of Wordsworth’s thought. In “The Ruined Cottage” Wordsworth chooses an ordinary person, Margaret, as the subject matter for a tragic poem, a

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Konai, Prabhat. "Relocating Nature in the Selected Poems of William Wordsworth." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 13, no. 4 (2025): 93–95. https://doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2025.68164.

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William Wordsworth is one of the eminent poets of nature from England. English literature is deeply indebted to the contribution of Wordsworth in the field of poetry. Wordsworth thinks nature as a teacher and a source of spiritual guide. To him, nature is the storehouse of vitality and energy and it has the capability of healing power. Wordsworth often associated childhood with an instinctive connection to nature. Nature and human beings are closely associated that Wordsworth highlights. The influence of nature in Wordsworth’s poetry can be traced back in ancient “Rigveda”. In “Rigveda”, the n

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Du, Xinyi. "Wordsworth's View of Nature Reflected in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." SHS Web of Conferences 199 (2024): 04034. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202419904034.

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William Wordsworth, a great poet from the English Romantic era, is celebrated for his deep portrayals and evocative emotions of the natural world. The majority of his poems center around elements in nature, serving as the primary vehicle to convey his contemplation on the world. Thus, the crux of this research is examining Wordsworth’s viewpoint on nature, namely via a meticulous analysis of the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. The research demonstrates that Wordsworth depicts nature as a conscious and emotive being via the use of anthropomorphic methods, as shown in his portrayal of daffodi

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Xu, Gillian. "Bidding Farewell: Echoes of William Wordsworth's ‘Tintern Abbey’ in Xu Zhimo's ‘Cambridge’ Poetry." Romanticism 31, no. 2 (2025): 172–83. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2025.0687.

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This essay discusses the reception of William Wordsworth in China and focuses on the case of the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo (徐志摩, 1897–1931). Xu gestures toward Wordsworth's ‘Tintern Abbey’ (1798) and The Prelude (1805) in his early poem ‘Cambridge, Farewell!’ (1923), his prose work ‘The Cambridge I Knew’ (1926), and his better-known poem titled ‘Second Farewell to Cambridge’ (1928). In a complex and non-derivative manner, Xu imagines Cambridge as a recurring space of memory and spiritual healing that possesses a shadow of Wordsworth's Tintern amidst fraught times in 1920s China. Whereas Wordsworth

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Khan, Sajjad Ali. "William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater: The Romantic Notion of Education and its Relation to Culture." Global Language Review VI, no. I (2021): 206–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(vi-i).22.

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This research paper examines the relationship between Arnold, Pater and modernism through the mediation of Wordsworth's ideas on education. Arnold's ideas on education are inspired by Wordsworth, and Arnold remains the most influential critic and theorist of education in the 'Wordsworthian tradition'. It is important to acknowledge the centrality of Arnold's ideas since Wordsworth's influence on later writers was largely mediated through Arnold's writings. Arnold echoes the best of Wordsworth in his best prose work, Culture and Anarchy. Education is a great help to culture as he says emphatica

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Williams, John. "Wordsworth, Shelley, and the Riddle of Peter Bell." Romanticism 23, no. 1 (2017): 75–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2017.0308.

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In 1819 Shelley was moved to anger and derision when Wordsworth published Peter Bell. His satirical response was predicated on an ironically autobiographical interpretation of the poem, and in this respect, Shelley's reading of the poem merits further study with respect to both poets. Hazlitt, Keats, Lamb, and others, were quick to note the egotistical drive that informed Wordsworth's writing, but in Peter Bell the Third Shelley claimed that Wordsworth went far beyond that. He insisted that Wordsworth had unintentionally satirised himself with devastating accuracy in the manner of Thomas Moore

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Wheatley, Kim. "Parodying The Prelude: The Autobiography of John Cowper Powys." Romanticism 29, no. 3 (2023): 281–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0613.

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This essay reads the 1934 prose Autobiography of the twentieth-century British novelist John Cowper Powys as a parody of Wordsworth’s Prelude. It argues that Powys revises Wordsworth’s trajectory of emotional growth, loss and recovery in ways that sometimes endorse and more often satirise the poet’s youthful love of nature and his adult transcendental imaginings. In doing so, Powys anticipates the revisionary readings of recent critics who have interpreted Wordsworth’s ‘language of the sense’ in materialist terms. Powys represents Wordsworth as a poet of physical – and sexual – sensation, regi

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Lindstrom, Eric. "Mourning Life: William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley." Romanticism 23, no. 1 (2017): 38–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2017.0305.

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What does it mean that Shelley publicly mourns the death a living Wordsworth in his poetry? This essay argues that Percy Bysshe Shelley's renunciation of a narrow concept of selfhood not only informs, but germinates, his psychological and political principles, and in the process shapes his response to William Wordsworth—not as an “egotistical” poet, but as one who paradoxically and enviably escapes mutability by being ontologically identified with forms of non-life. I argue that Shelley brilliantly (and correctly) attributes this position to Wordsworth's poetic thought through his own poetic t

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Graver, Bruce. "Neoclassical Wordsworth." Romanticism 28, no. 1 (2022): 36–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0535.

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This essay looks at Wordsworth’s ‘Laodamía’ as an example of a neoclassical phase that his writings took, beginning in 1814 and continuing for about a decade. I examine Wordsworth’s verse form, an adaptation of the stanza Shakespeare used in ‘Venus and Adonis’, and also look at the ways in which he modifies his classical sources, especially Ovid’s Heroides xiii. The essay then considers the style of the poem, especially how Wordsworth incorporates translations and paraphrases of passages from Virgil’s Aeneid, which is itself one of his classical sources. The essay ends with an analysis of the

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Swaab, Peter. "Wordsworth's Elegies for John Wordsworth." Wordsworth Circle 45, no. 1 (2014): 30–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/twc24044352.

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May, Charlotte. "The Professional Poet in the Romantic Period: Unpublished letters from Samuel Rogers to William Wordsworth." Romanticism 29, no. 1 (2023): 68–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0581.

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This article sheds new light on the literary relationship between William Wordsworth and the banker-poet Samuel Rogers through transcriptions of previously unpublished letters from Rogers to Wordsworth. The discussions in these letters reveal how both poets were responding to rapid changes in the commercial bookselling market. As a bestselling author with an extensive social network, Wordsworth sought Rogers’s advice for himself and also to discuss the potential publication of his sister Dorothy Wordsworth’s travel journals. The letters provide Rogers’s perspective on the material practice of

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Lindstrom, Eric. "What Wordsworth Planted." Articles, no. 56 (March 8, 2011): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1001093ar.

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This essay shows how the metaphor of “planting” assumes a cluster of meanings beyond horticulture in the romantic age. I pursue the associative dimensions of that figure as an index of both sexuality and obliquely imperial concerns in Wordsworth and his critics. The promiscuity of this word disrupts a received image of the poet as stodgy, self-directed, and somehow verbally and otherwise chaste. I reexamine frankly moving passages from the “memory fragment,” two-book Prelude and from the elegy “Peele Castle.” At the same time the essay heeds the injunction David Simpson offers in the title of

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Potkay, Adam. "Wordsworth and the Ethics of Things." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 2 (2008): 390–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.2.390.

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Wordsworth poetically realizes an ecological ethics grounded on the self's non-assimilative encounter with the otherness of nonhuman things. Engaging the etymological force of the word thing, Stoic and Spinozan philosophy, and a poetic tradition of assigning a “face” to natural things, Wordsworth arrives at a lyric apprehension of the “life of things,” a life that human beings share with other thinking and insentient, substantial and circumstantial things. Instead of anthropomorphizing things, Wordsworth “thingicizes” ethics. This aspect of Wordsworth's poems is illuminated when they are read

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Simons, Christopher. "Peter Bell’s Professions." Romanticism 29, no. 3 (2023): 226–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0609.

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This article investigates the socioeconomic contexts of Wordsworth’s Peter Bell in relation to Peter’s ‘profession’ – to use Wordsworth’s term, when he wrote that first among the ‘great defects’ of Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner is that the protagonist ‘has no distinct character … in his profession of Mariner’. Peter Bell is a ‘potter’; Wordsworth’s footnote to the 1819 first edition defines this as ‘a hawker of earthenware’. Modern scholarship accepts the northern definition of potter as ‘pedlar’, effacing the connection to pottery. Yet evidence in the poem suggests that Wordsworth understood th

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McEathron, Scott. "Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, and the Problem of Peasant Poetry." Nineteenth-Century Literature 54, no. 1 (1999): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2902995.

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Wordsworth's account in the "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads of the groundbreaking nature of his rustic poetics has long served as foundational to our understanding of Romanticism. Yet his representation of "the public taste in this country" in 1800 elided the presence of a decades-long tradition of "peasant" and "working-class" poetry in Britain. Figures like Stephen Duck ("The Thresher Poet"), Robert Burns, and Ann Yearsley ("The Bristol Milkwoman") had been the focus of fashionable critical interest because they were seen as embodying the very values of simplicity and rustic authenticity that W

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Fatah, Shokhan Mohammed. "Industrialization in William Wordsworth's Selected Poems." Journal of University of Human Development 5, no. 3 (2019): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/juhd.v5n3y2019.pp116-119.

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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is undeniably one of the most significant Romantic poets. He is famous for his love for nature. He finds tranquility and solitude in the company of nature. For him, nature is everything, including faith and God. Wordsworth believes that God has mirrored himself through nature. The industrial revolution made life more complicated, yet productive. The industrial revolution solved some problems while it caused some others, violation of nature is among the most distressing one. As a worshiper of nature, Wordsworth has noticed this impairment and portrayed the two liv

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Zeng, Xiaoxin. "Paradoxes in Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey: Sense, Nature, Reality." BCP Social Sciences & Humanities 20 (October 18, 2022): 287–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v20i.2331.

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There are always arguments about the unadorned language and the nature in Wordsworth’s poems. Some consider it as a sentimental approach to escape from the reality, while others are on the contrary. This article is going to check how the language was used, and in what aspect Wordsworth chose to depict the nature to find relationship between human and nature, as well as the society. By examining the paradoxes in the poetry, the article will explore how Wordsworth made innovation at his time, which added a new angle to perceive the world.

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Westwood, Daniel. "‘These Common Woes I Feel’: The Elegist and the Reader in Wordsworth and Shelley." English: Journal of the English Association 69, no. 264 (2019): 45–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/efz047.

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Abstract This article argues that Shelley’s approach to the elegy owes a significant debt to Wordsworth’s ‘Lucy’ poems, particularly Wordsworth’s examination of the relationship between the elegist and the reader. While the elegy often extols the value of communal bonds and shared experiences in responding effectively to grief, the ‘Lucy’ poems use reticence and obfuscation to qualify the reader’s engagement with the emotional experiences that constitute an elegy. Through this, Wordsworth questions the possibility of the elegist and the reader experiencing a unified response to loss. Identifyi

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Hall, Dewey W. "Wordsworth and Emerson: Aurora Borealis and the Question of Influence." Articles, no. 50 (June 5, 2008): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/018146ar.

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Abstract This article concerns the question of influence evident in the transatlantic relationship between William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson. I argue that influence is linked vitally to light—celestial or the northern lights (i.e. aurora borealis)—, which is evident in the prose and poetry by Wordsworth and Emerson. Electromagnetic energy conducts a circuit; this is reflected also in the transatlantic crosscurrent of the precursor and progeny. Notably, Wordsworth’s “The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman” (1798) and his Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) influence Emerson’s The Poet

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Yen, Brandon C. "Poetry and Science: William Wordsworth and his Irish Friends William Rowan Hamilton and Francis Beaufort Edgeworth, c. 1829." Romanticism 26, no. 1 (2020): 89–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2020.0450.

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Through hitherto neglected manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin, the Bodleian Library, and the Wordsworth Trust, this paper explores the relationship between William Wordsworth and his Irish friends William Rowan Hamilton and Francis Beaufort Edgeworth around 1829. It details the debates about poetry and science between Hamilton (Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin and Royal Astronomer of Ireland) and Edgeworth (the novelist Maria Edgeworth's half-brother), in which Wordsworth was embroiled when he visited Ireland in the autumn of 1829. By examining a variety of documents includi

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Domines Veliki, Martina. "VISUALIZING POVERTY IN WORDSWORTH’S POETRY." Umjetnost riječi: časopis za znanost o književnosti, izvedbenoj umjetnosti i filmu 63, no. 3-4 (2020): 161–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.22210/ur.2019.063.3_4.02.

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VISUALIZING POVERTY IN WORDSWORTH’S POETRY This paper departs from the assumption that Wordsworth’s poetry is highly visual in its quality and it focuses on his three “great period” poems, “Michael”, “The Old Cumberland Beggar” and “Resolution and Independence” (1798–1805) to show how Wordsworth represents poverty. By taking as its starting point some New Historicist readings of these poems (Simpson, Pfau, Connell, Liu) which highlighted Wordsworth’s blindness to social reality of the poor, it wants to enlarge the scope of historicist readings by introducing the framework of the New Poverty St

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Perkins, David. "Wordsworth and the Polemic Against Hunting: "Hart-Leap Well"." Nineteenth-Century Literature 52, no. 4 (1998): 421–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2934060.

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Increasing compassion for animals led in Wordsworth's era to a polemic against hunting. Wordsworth's "Hart-Leap Well" is part of this campaign. Wordsworth's strategy and arguments in the second part of "Hart-Leap Well" are typical of the discourses that attacked hunting, chiefly for its cruelty, but Wordsworth was unusual in also leading readers in the first part of the poem to sympathize with the hunter's emotions, and he illustrates in the figure of Sir Walter the warrior virtues that hunting was said by its defenders to inculcate. The poem reaches more deeply, however, to explore irrational

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Joshi, Dipak Raj. "Politics of Sympathy and Outrage in Wordsworth’s Abolitionist Poetry." Studies in Social Science & Humanities 2, no. 9 (2023): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.56397/sssh.2023.09.01.

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William Wordsworth has written a number of poems dedicated to abolition of slave trade. His sonnets Poems in Two Volumes (1807) — To Thomas Clarkson, To Toussaint L’Ouverture, September Ist, 1802 —, Humanity (1835), and The Prelude (1850) deal with the issue of slave trade and slavery explicitly. These poems show Wordsworth’s anger on the attitude favoring perpetuation of slavery for economic reasons. This paper seeks to show that Wordsworth’s abolitionist poetry stem from the affective circumstances and not from his genuine feeling for the predicament of the slaves. His sympathy for them verg

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Somervell, Tess. "Mediating Vision: Wordsworth's Allusions to Thomson's Seasons in The Prelude." Romanticism 22, no. 1 (2016): 48–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0256.

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The importance of James Thomson's eighteenth-century poem The Seasons to Wordsworth's The Prelude has been systematically underestimated by critics, who take at face value Wordsworth's dismissals in his prose writings of Thomson's diction. In fact The Prelude contains a large number of allusions to and direct borrowings from The Seasons. Examining three of the most significant of these allusions, this essay argues that Wordsworth turned to Thomson in order to find a language that could express communion with the external, natural world, and specifically a communion that is mediated by the ‘bod

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Dr., Reetu Khurana (Sardana). "A Psychological Analysis Of Wordsworth And Coleridge, Two Prominent Romantic Poets." Siddhanta's International Journal of Advanced Research in Arts & Humanities 1, no. 3 (2024): 8–16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11319046.

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Wordsworth's theory of poetry, which exemplifies the "primary laws of our nature: chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement," depends on this concept of association (3). Wordsworth believed that the growth of a poet's mind depends on their habits of association and that natural landscapes are essential. However, Wordsworth believes that the poet's own mind serves as the poem's original source rather than the outside world. In contrast to Locke, who thought that human nature is moulded by sensory experiences in the outside world, Wordsworth emphas

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Jagger, Jasmine. "Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Healing Powers of the Imagination." Romanticism 22, no. 1 (2016): 33–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0255.

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This article discusses a medical link between Wordsworth and Coleridge during and around the composition of The Prelude. Looking closely at popular medical treatises on the imagination and its specific powers over the human mind and body in the late 1700s and early 1800s, it identifies a medical ‘strand’ within the The Prelude, particularly in relation to its address to an ailing Coleridge. Through biographical tracking and close attention to certain poetic emphases and motifs, it identifies a special motive for Wordsworth's writing of his poem, as well as an emergent dynamic between the two p

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Butler, James A. "Tourist or Native Son: Wordsworth's Homecomings of 1799-1800." Nineteenth-Century Literature 51, no. 1 (1996): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2933838.

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After many years of wandering in England and abroad, in November 1799 Wordsworth returned to his native Lake District on a "picturesque tour." guiding his southern friend Coleridge. That tour made clear to Wordsworth that tourists-and worse, tourists who returned to settle in the Lake District-were damaging the landscape and the people. When he himself took up residence in Grasmere the following month, Wordsworth's anxiety about his tourist experiences found expression in several poems in which he eventually defined his poetic identity by weighing the tourist against the native son. Somehow th

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Olsen, Trenton B. "ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S EVOLUTIONARY WORDSWORTH." Victorian Literature and Culture 44, no. 4 (2016): 887–906. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150316000267.

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While crediting William Wordsworth'stutelage in his 1887 essay “Books Which Have Influenced Me,” Robert Louis Stevenson indicates that the poet's contribution to his writing is difficult to pin down: “Wordsworth should perhaps come next. Every one has been influenced by Wordsworth and it is hard to tell precisely how” (164). Seeking to understand this relationship, I examined Stevenson's copy of Wordsworth'sThe Poetical Works(1858) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Stevenson's penciled markings, cross-references, and annotations fill the six-volume set, indic

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Widmer, Matthias. "Wordsworth's Aeneid and the Influence of its Eighteenth-Century Predecessors." Translation and Literature 26, no. 1 (2017): 23–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2017.0274.

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William Wordsworth's attempt at translating Virgil's Aeneid reached as far as Book 4, and mostly survives in manuscript drafts. The literary influences behind it can be illuminated through the poet's correspondence, and analysed more fully by tracing verbal echoes and other resonances in his translation. Despite the hostility he expressed towards Dryden and Pope, the foremost translators of the previous age, Wordsworth followed them in using heroic couplets, and, as has previously been argued, his translation draws increasingly on Dryden's Aeneis the further he advanced with his project. But W

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Sun, Shuting. "Wordsworth against the Capitalist Ideology of Labor in “The Last of the Flock” and “Simon Lee”." English Language and Literature Studies 7, no. 2 (2017): 132. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v7n2p132.

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In several places in the Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth challenges the capitalist ideology of labor. In Wordsworth’s view one of the key weaknesses the way this ideology manifests itself in economic thought is the way it generalizes about different people and their situations. The result of such generalizations is that they miss out the different meanings people give to their economic activity and applies to them a crude classification of either rational or irrational. Wordsworth believed that this erroneous economic thinking had infected moral theory. In the Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth inv

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Yang, Rui. "Undercurrents of the River Duddon: Human Consciousness versus Nature." SHS Web of Conferences 199 (2024): 04029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202419904029.

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This essay examines the relationship between human consciousness and nature in William Wordsworth's "The River Duddon" sonnets. By adapting the method of literary analysis, Wordsworth’s portrayal of the River Duddon serves as a lens through which the boundaries of human understanding are examined, illustrating an unbridgeable gap between human consciousness and nature. After a brief introduction of research background, this essay elaborates on the River Duddon's unattainable origin as cloud’s child in deferral to both antiquity and industry, eco-Gothic wilderness in departure and return patter

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Burkett, Andrew. "Wordsworthian Chance." Articles, no. 54 (December 15, 2009): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/038762ar.

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Abstract First-generation Romantic poets generally hold a deeply rooted faith in the notion of the limitless nature of possibility, and in reaction to Enlightenment determinism, several of these poets strive for an understanding and representation of nature that is divorced from Enlightenment notions of causality. This essay specifically explores William Wordsworth’s poetic denunciation of such deterministic accounts of causality through an investigation of The Prelude’s (1799, 1805, 1850) complication of the assumption that the natural effect can be traced backward towards a single identifiab

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Firoze Basu. "The “Healing Touch” of Nature: Corresponding Elements in the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Jibanananda Das." Creative Launcher 6, no. 1 (2021): 181–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.1.21.

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This paper endeavours to find resonances between Wordsworth's treatment and responses to Nature and Jibanananda's fascination with rural Bengal. A lecturer in English, he tried to bring the West to the Bengali psyche and consciousness utilizing the unique strategy of de-familiarizing the Bengali landscape. In effecting this achievement Jibanananda's familiarity with English poetry is of paramount importance. He has analogical and genealogical similarities with Keats and Wordsworth's particularly Wordsworth, in the celebrations of solitude, of nature.

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Cox, Jeffrey N. "Wordsworth’s The Borderers, Early and Late." Nineteenth-Century Literature 79, no. 2 (2024): 106–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2024.79.2.106.

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Jeffrey N. Cox, “Wordsworth’s The Borderers, Early and Late” (pp. 106–133) William Wordsworth’s sole tragedy, while written in the late 1790s, did not appear until 1842, in his last volume of new poetry, Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; including the Borderers, A Tragedy. In the back matter are two series of advertisements: one for the other six volumes in the newest edition of Wordsworth’s poetry and the other for his publisher Edward Moxon’s “Dramatic Library,” which includes volumes of plays by key playwrights from Shakespeare to Congreve, with the editors spanning the Romantic movem

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Beattie-Smith, Gillian. "Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals of Scotland: The Creation of the Romantic Author." Postscriptum Polonistyczne 27, no. 1 (2021): 51–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/https://doi.org/10.31261/ps_p.2021.27.03.

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The increase in popularity of the Home Tour in the 19th century and the publication of many journals, diaries, and guides of tours of Scotland by, such as, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, led to the perception of Scotland as a literary tour destination. The tour of Scotland invariably resulted in a journal in which identities such as writer, traveller, observer, were created. The text became a location for the pursuit of a sense of place and identity. For women in particular, the text offered opportunities to be accepted as a writer and commentator. Dorothy Wordsworth made two journeys to Sc

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Sumati Bharti. "Pantheism and William Wordsworth." Knowledgeable Research: A Multidisciplinary Journal 2, no. 04 (2023): 39–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.57067/kr.v2i1.191.

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A religious theory that may be utilized to construct an Islamic criticism of English literature according to Islamic principles is Wordsworth’s pantheism. Pantheism may encourage academics whose ultimate objective is to understand God via the study of natural objects of the universe found in English literature, despite the fact that it is fundamentally antithetical to God’s oneness. We were therefore enthralled by Wordsworth’s interpretation and comprehension of nature. However, we tried to reconstruct the idea from an Islamic perspective utilizing Quranic text after learning that his idea of

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Dr.Shaifali Saxena* and Dr Manali Saxena**. "William Wordsworth and the French Revolution: A Study of Ideals and Realities." Knowledgeable Research: A Multidisciplinary Journal 2, no. 09 (2024): 32–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.57067/wrj8ct26.

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This research paper delves into the profound impact of the French Revolution on the poetry of William Wordsworth, one of the most eminent Romantic English poets. Through an analysis of Wordsworth's life, works, and ideological evolution, this paper explores the intersection of revolutionary fervor and poetic expression during a tumultuous period in European history. Drawing on primary sources and literary analysis, the paper investigates Wordsworth's initial enthusiasm for the Revolution, his subsequent disillusionment, and the enduring legacy of his poetic response to the transformative event

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Atta Salman, Mohammed. "Wordsworth’s Lucy poems as the Reflections of the French Revolution: A New Historicist Study." Journal of Education College Wasit University 2, no. 45 (2021): 513–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.31185/eduj.vol2.iss45.2321.

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Abstract The current study takes a New Historic outlook toward William Wordsworth’s the “Lucy Poems” and believes that by a minute scrutiny of these poems we can expose the power structure and the dominant discourses that according to New Historicism have shaped the poet’s character, society and world. Accordingly, the paper suggests that the poet through symbolic and non-symbolic ways has embedded historical and political facts in these poems. To do so, the research will reveal some controversial correspondences among these poems, William Wordsworth’s life and historical facts of the Fr

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Snow, Heidi J. "William Wordsworth’s Definition of Poverty." Articles, no. 56 (March 8, 2011): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1001098ar.

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A close examination of Dorothy Wordsworth and William Wordsworth’s writing indicates that they considered themselves as living in poverty for some years before their case was settled with Lord Lowther. Both their material circumstances and contemporary definitions of poverty led them to identify themselves as “poor.” This article examines that self-identification and its evidence in their writings. Finally, William Wordsworth’s poem, “Last of the Flock,” indicates that he rejected a narrow parish view of poverty for a wider view that included the right to own some property.

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Johnston, Kenneth R. "William Wordsworth, Child of Nature, Child of the Century: The Crisis of The Prelude in European Context." Romanticism 30, no. 3 (2024): 221–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2024.0655.

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When he first heard in May of 1804 that Bonaparte intended to declare himself emperor, Beethoven famously tore off the dedication page of his third (‘Eroica’) symphony. In roughly the same time-frame during 1804–05 Wordsworth was coming to the conclusion of his first full version of The Prelude (completed May 20, 1805), with similar attention to Napoleon. I want to use this compositional coincidence as a lead-in to a concentrated reading of Book X of The Prelude which can lead to a stronger connection between Wordsworth and not just Beethoven, but the whole of nineteenth-century European liter

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Mamun, Md Muntasir. "Education Movements and William Wordsworth." International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education 3, no. 1 (2018): xx. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/jimphe.v3i1.633.

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The seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries experienced major educational movements, including orthodox religious formalism and rationalistic formalism of the Enlightenment. Toward the end of the latter century, however, naturalist and individualist views of education began to counter formalism, inspired by poets and philosophers like William Wordsworth and Jean Jacques Rousseau. This article focuses on Wordsworth's poetry to show how his philosophy of moral and spiritual development of the individual helped to establish faith in Nature as a basis of moral guidance of education. Wordsworth

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Callaghan, Madeleine. "Wordsworth, Shelley, and Hardy: The Inheritance of Loss." ELH 91, no. 1 (2024): 181–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2024.a922013.

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Abstract: This article calls for a revaluation of Thomas Hardy's Poems of 1912–13 , viewing them as in dialogue with William Wordsworth's Lucy poems and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Jane poems. Though Poems of 1912–13 has been favored with a great deal of criticism that aims to come to terms with its manifold influences, the Romantic influence upon Hardy's collection has been overlooked. This article considers how Hardy brings Wordsworth and Shelley's sequences into conversation with his elegies to argue that Hardy reimagines both poets' sequences to create his poetry of mourning.

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Hegele, Arden. "Wordsworth's Dropsy: Flux and Figure in The Excursion." Romanticism 24, no. 1 (2018): 36–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2018.0352.

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This essay traces how William Wordsworth engages with both Romantic medical discourse and aesthetic theory by insisting that the mind is physically embodied, and finds his most complex and compelling treatment of this subject in his long poem of 1814, The Excursion. Adapting the formal model of poesis as a hydraulic process that he had theorized in the ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads, the Wordsworth of 1814 considers minds as embodied brains governed by the influx of both liquid and language: the discovery of a waterlogged Voltaire corresponds to the shape of the Solitary's psychology through the

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Sirla, Mr Syamasundara Rao. "A Poem by William Wordsworth: The Landscape of Nature." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 10, no. 4 (2025): 106–14. https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.104.16.

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William Wordsworth's poem has been deeply associated with landscape, especially the English Lake District, where he lived and found inspiration. He observed its profound impact on the beauty and human spirit and spirituality of nature, often used vivid details to express his experiences in the natural world. Wordsworth also advocated the protection of nature, arguing that it was a moral claim on all people, not only on landlords. The way of representing the landscape of Wordsworth was powerful affected by the illustrated conferences. Although he claims to overthrow his young manhood, which is

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Jones, Chris, and Li-Po Lee. "Wordsworth’s Creation of Active Taste." Articles, no. 54 (December 15, 2009): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/038764ar.

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Abstract Building on Bakhtinian approaches to Wordsworth’s early poems, we extend their findings to The Prelude, using analytical tools from narratology and film criticism to trace the interplay of different views and voices. By dramatising his narrator and his problems in suturing together past and present and the viewpoints of the young “hero” and the older narrator, Wordsworth the poet is continuing his project of educating an active taste. The narrator demonstrates the processes of the imagination but in ways that reveal its artifice for others to use. The gaps and uncertainties which crit

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Rahman, Sofiur. "Wordsworth's Romanticism in the Light of the Poem “Munajat Arwah” of Khalil Gibran: A Study." RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary 8, no. 12 (2023): 88–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2023.v08.n12.013.

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Literature has a long history, and it shows that many writers and thinkers have helped start, develop, enrich, and bring about major changes or literary catalysts in the genre they work in. Not only do they start a new trend, but they also create a completely new way of writing, often against all odds and expectations. They change the way literature is written now and in the future. Gibran A famous writer, Khalil Gibran (1883–1931), owned such a thing. He is praised for his work as a novelist, philosopher, poet, and artist. Gibran In spite of being born in Lebanon, Khalil Gibran lived most of

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Ward, John Powell. "Wordsworth's Eldest Son: John Wordsworth and the Intimations Ode." Wordsworth Circle 36, no. 2 (2005): 66–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/twc24045111.

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Powell, Raymond. "Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth,Tintern Abbey andSamson Agonistes." Neophilologus 79, no. 4 (1995): 689–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01126899.

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