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: Annual Anthology
'W[ordsworth] received a copy [of the Annual Anthology] in Aug. [1799], and discussed it in his letter to [Joseph] Cottle of 2 Sept.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: Annual Register
"In Feb. 1834, W[ordsworth] remembered having first read Crabbe in the Annual Register during the 1780s; there he also read Beattie's 'Illustrations on Sublimity.'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
James Beattie : Minstrel, The
'W[ordsworth] was introduced to The Minstrel by his teacher, Thomas Bowman ... during his schooldays at Hawkshead. De Selincourt emphasizes its influence on the juvenilia [quotes Minstrel I st.32 lines 3-8 featuring "clanking chain," and "owl's terrific song," and Wordsworth's uses of these features in The Vale of Esthwaite (1787)]'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Thomas Beddoes : Domiciliary Verses
'W[ordsworth] did not read it [Thomas Beddoes, Domiciliary Verses] until it was reprinted in the Annual Anthology (1799). [Joseph] Cottle sent W[ordsworth] a copy ... in Aug. 1799, and on 2 Sept he wrote back: "Pray give yourself no uneasiness about Dr Beddoes's verses [which parodied the Lyrical Ballads] ... it is a very harmless performance."'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
John Bell : Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry
'W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to "make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which contains The Minstrel and Sir martyn" ... [he]included an extract from [William Julius Mickle's] Sir Martyn in the Album he compiled for Lady Mary Lowther in 1819 ... '
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: The Bible
"In the Fenwick Note to the Intimations Ode, W[ordsworth] recalled that at school 'I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah' ... the Hawkshead schoolboys regularly attended Church, and were catechized at least once a week."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Lisle Bowles : Fourteen Sonnets
'At some point after 1828, W[ordsworth] told Alexander Dyce that he read Bowles's Fourteen Sonnets on publication: "When Bowles's Sonnets first appeared, - a thin 4to pamphlet, entitled Fourteen Sonnets, - I bought them in a walk through London with my dear brother, who was afterwards drowned at sea."'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Miguel de Cervantes Savedra : Don Quixote
"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever books I liked ... I read all Fielding's works, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and any part of Swift that I liked." (Wordsworth, Prose Works vol. 3 p.372).
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Alain Rene Le Sage : Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever books I liked ... I read all Fielding's works, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and any part of Swift that I liked." (Wordsworth, Prose Works vol. 3 p.372).
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Henry Fielding :
"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever books I liked ... I read all Fielding's works, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and any part of Swift that I liked." (Wordsworth, Prose Works vol. 3 p.372).
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels
"Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of the Tub, both being much to my taste' (Prose Works vol 3 p.372)."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Jonathan Swift : A Tale of a Tub
"Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of the Tub, both being much to my taste' (Prose Works vol 3 p.372)."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Collins : An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland
"[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Carlyle's copy, with Mr Mackenzie's supplemental lines - and was extensively circulated through the English newspapers, in which I remember to have read it with great pleasure upon its first appearance.'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
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"On 27 July 1799, W[ordsworth] told Cottle that 'Looking over some old monthly Magazines I saw a paragraph stating that your 'Arthur' was ready for the press!'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Euclid : Elements I-IV, VI
"W[ordsworth] recollected that at Hawkshead ... ' ... I, with the other boys of the same standing, was put upon reading the first six books of Euclid, with the exception of the fifth ...'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
John Foxe : Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable
"W[ordsworth] read the copy [of John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable] preserved today in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library ..."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: Gentleman's Magazine
"W[ordsworth]'s note to Descriptive Sketches 428 reads: 'These summer hamlets are probably (as I have seen observed by a critic in the Gentleman's Magazine) what Virgil alludes to in the expression 'Castella in tumulis.'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
"'I have received from [Basil] Montagu, Godwyn's second edition,' reports W[ordsworth] on 21 March 1796: 'I expect to find the work much improved. I cannot say that I have been encouraged in this hope by the perusal of the second preface, which is all I have yet looked into.'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :
"On 27 Feb. 1799, W[ordsworth] told [S. T.] C[oleridge] that 'My internal prejudge[ments con]cerning Wieland and Goethe ... were ... the result of no negligent perusal of the different fragments which I had seen in England.'"
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown
Paul Hentzner : A Journey into England
"Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of W[ordsworth] and then of D[orothy] W[ordsworth]."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Robert Heron : Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Countries of Scotland
"in spring 1800 ... [Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ..."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
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"In late Nov. 1795, W[ordsworth] wrote to [Francis] Wrangham: " ... we see only here a provincial weekly paper ..."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
Isaac Newton : Opticks
"[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] once left the young W[ordsworth] in his study for a moment and returned to find him reading the Opticks."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Ovid : Metamorphoses
"Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly attached to Ovid, whose Metamorphoses I read at school, that I was in quite a passion, whenever I found him, in books of criticism, placed below Virgil.'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Pliny : Epistolarum
"W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber having the same opinion of Plinys [sic] letters which you have express'd when I read them many years ago.'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Italian
"Attacking W[ordsworth]'s 'one-sidedness' in 1840, De Quincey records: 'One of Mrs Radcliffe's romances, viz. 'The Italian,' he had, by some strange accident, read, - read, but only to laugh at it ... '"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
"Christopher Wordsworth Jr. wrote of W[ordsworth]: 'The week before he took his degree he passed his time in reading Clarissa Harlowe.'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Coxe : Lettres de M. William Coxe a M. W. Melmoth sur l'etat politique, civil, et naturel de la Suisse; traduits de l'Anglaise, et augmentees des observations faites dans le meme pays par le traducteur
"W[ordsworth] owned and read the French translation of Coxe during his residence in France, 1791-2."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
George Redpath : The Border History of England and Scotland
"In 1843, W[ordsworth] recalled his research for The Borderers: ' ... having a wish to colour the manners in some degree from local history more than my knowledge enabled me to do I read Redpath's history of the Borders but found there nothing to my purpose.'"
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Robert Southey : Joan of Arc
'Southey, W[ordsworth] told [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795, "is about publishing an epic poem on the subject of the Maid of orleans. From the specimens I have seen I am inclined to think it will have many beauties."'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown
Lawrence Sterne : Tristram Shandy
'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two or three papers of the Spectator."'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: Spectator, The
'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two or three papers of the Spectator."'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
: Weekly Entertainer, The
'W[ordsworth] read "Christian's own Account of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty, commanded by Captain Bligh, of which he was the Ringleader" in The Weekly Entertainer 28 (26 Sept. 1796), some time in Sept. or Oct. 1796.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Uvedale Price : Essay on the Picturesque
"My Brother has read Mr Price's Book on the picturesque ... "
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Thomas Clarkson : Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a View of the Moral Education, Descriptions, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil OEconomy and Character of the Society of Friends.
'W[illia]m [Wordsworth] has read most of Mr Clarkson's book and has been much pleased, but he complains of the second volume being exceedingly disfigured by perpetual use of the word tract.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: [newspaper]
William Wordsworth: 'I read in the papers with great pain the account of Mungo Park's disastrous end ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
: [newspapers]
'I hope the execrable Murderer will prove to have been an Irishman; the Scotch much to their honour have hitherto been little tainted by that detestable crime. I had read of it, though not the particulars, in the newspapers, and had been very much shocked.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
John Milton : Paradise Lost
'I often think of the happy evening when, by your fireside, my Brother read to us the first book of the Paradise lost ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Hutchinson : Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson
'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them. In the first place my Brother and Sister have read the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which is a most valuable and interesting Book. - My Brother speaks of it with unqualified approbation, and he intends to read it over again.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Thomas Clarkson : History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, The
'We had read his [Thomas Clarkson's] book ... William [Wordsworth] I believe made a few remarks upon paper, but he had not time for much criticism, and in fact having only one perusal of the work he was too much interested.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown
Thomas Dunham Whitaker : History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, The
'I cannot express how much pleasure my Brother has already received from Dr. Whitaker's Books, though they have been only two days in his possession - Almost the whole time he has been greedily devouring the History of Craven ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: Edinburgh Review
William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'In passing through Penrith I had an opportunity of seeing his [Francis Jeffrey's] last Review [of Wordsworth's Poems on Two Volumes, in the Edinburgh Review]. I had before skimmed over, some time ago, what he had written in the article on [Southey's] Thalaba [in Oct. 1802] ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Symmonds : Life of John Milton, The
William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your quondam Friend's, Dr. Symmonds' life of Milton, on some future occasion I will tell you what I think of it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Wordsworth : White Doe of Rylstone, The
'In compliance with frequent entreaties I took the MSS [of The White Doe of Rylstone] to [Charles] Lamb's to read it, or part of it, one evening. There unluckily I found [William] Hazlitt and his Beloved [Sarah Stoddart] ... though I had the Poem in my hand I ... absolutely refused, to read it. But as they were very earnest in entreating me, I at last consented to read one Book ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown
Francis Wrangham : Human Laws best supported by the Gospel
William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your sermon [Human Laws best supported by the Gospel] (which I lately received from Longman) with much pleasure. I only gave it a cursory perusal, for since it arrived my family has been in great confusion, we having removed to another House, in which we are not yet half settled. The Appendix I had received before in a frank, and of that I feel more entitled to speak, because I had read it more at leisure [goes on to discuss this in detail].'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Walter Scott : Marmion
William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'Thank you for Marmion which I have read with lively pleasure ... '
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
John Dryden : unknown
William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'I had a peep at your edition of Dryden - I had not time to read the Notes which would have interested me most, namely the historical and illustrative ones; but some of the critical introductions I read ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Andrew Bell : Experiment in Education made at the Asylum of Madras, An
William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Since I wrote to you I have read Dr Bell's Book upon Education ... it is a most interesting work and entitles him to the fervent gratitude of all good men: but I cannot say [?it has made] any material change in my views ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Gilbert White : Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
'I remember reading White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn[e] with great pleasure when a Boy at school ...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Thomas Dunham Whitaker : History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honour of Clitheroe, The
' ... I have lately read Dr. Whitaker's history of ... Whalley both with profit and pleasure.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Grave : The History and Antiquities of Cleveland in the North Riding of Yorkshire
William Wordsworth suggests to Francis Wrangham that he attempt to write a local history: 'I am induced to mention it from a belief that you are admirably qualified for such a work ... and from a regret in seeing works of this kind ... utterly marred by falling into the hands of wretched Bunglers, e.g. the History of Cleveland whiich I have just read, by a Clergyman of Yarm by the name of Grave, the most heavy performance I ever encountered ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
unknown : [newpapers]
'I have seen a hint in one of the Papers about some letters of [General Sir] David Baird to the same tune as [Sir John] Moore's [about the Peninsular Campaign].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
William Wordsworth : White Doe of Rylstone, The
'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe; and Coleridge's Christabel to him, with both of which he was much delighted.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel
'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe; and Coleridge's Christabel to him, with both of which he was much delighted.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
unknown : [magazine]
'I have just been reading an old Magazine where I find that Benjamin Flower was fined ?100 and imprisoned in Newgate four months ... for a libel, as it was termed, upon the Bishop of Llandaff ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Catullus : Carmina
'Three of W[ordsworth]'s translations of Catullus survive from between 1786 and c.1788 ["Death of a Starling" (1786); "Lesbia" (1786); "Septimius and Acme" (1788)] ... he had studied Catullus closely as a schoolboy ... '
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
John Donne : Holy Sonnet 10
'W[ordsworth] copied a brief quotation from Donne's "Death be not proud" into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ["Death be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful ... "]'.
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Horace : Works of Horace. Translated into English Prose, for the use of those who are desirous of acquiring or recovering a competent knowledge of the Latin language. By Christopher Smart
'In spring 1789 W[ordsworth]translated Horace's Ode to Apollo (Ode I xxxi) with the help of [Christopher] Smart's translation.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Horace : Odes
'W[ordsworth]'s translation of Horace's Ode to the Bandusian Fountain (Ode III xiii) appears in a manuscript dating from his time at Windy Brow in 1794.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Richard Payne Knight : Progress of Civil Society, A Didactic Poem, The
'A 28-line transcription in Wordsworth's hand appears in the Alfoxden Notebook (Dove Cottage MS 14) of a quotation from Richard Payne Knight's The Progress of Civil Society.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
David Herd : Ancient and Modern Scottish Poems
'Mary Moorman, "Wordsworth's Commonplace Book," Notes & Queries NS 4 (1957) 400-5, reports that the commonplace book used by Wordsworth after 1800 contains "four verses from a ballad ['The Cruel Mother'] in Herd's Ancient and Modern Scottish Poems (1776) ... "'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Robert Heron : Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Countries of Scotland
'[Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ... '
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Thomas Holcroft : Man of Ten Thousand, The
'W[ordsworth] read Holcroft's play shortly after publication ... on 21 March 1796 [he] told [William] Mathews that "I have attempted to read Holcroft's Man of Ten Thousand, but such stuff! Demme hey, humph."'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Juvenal : Satire X
Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly Juvenal's Satire upon Nobility - or rather parts of it. How far the choice of a Subject might be influenced by the run at that time against Aristocracy, I am unable to say ... '
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Moschus : Lament for Bion
'During the spring or summer of 1789, W[ordsworth] translated Moschus' Lament for Bion [Idyllium III] ... '
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Bion : Death of Adonis
'W[ordsworth] read (in [John] Langhorne's translation) Bion's death of Adonis by 1786 ... '
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Petrarch : Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento (sonnet)
'W[ordsworth] composed a loose translation of Petrarch, Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento in 1789-90 while learning Italian with Agostino Isola.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Jean Racine : Athalie
'On the facing verso of the MS [of Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff], [Wordsworth] ... copies out Athalie I.ii.278-82, 292-94 ... '
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Jean Racine : Athalie
Thomas Moore on encountering W[ordsworth] in Paris on 24 Oct. 1820: 'A young Frenchman called in, and it was amusing to hear him and Wordsworth at cross purposes on the subject of "Athalie"; Wordsworth saying that he did not wish to see it acted, as it would never come up to the high imagination he had formed in reading it ... '
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
George Sandys : Relation of a Journey Begun 1610. Foure Bookes. Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of AEgypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy and Ilands Adjoyning
'[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] recalled that W[ordsworth] read [George Sandys, Relation of a Journey Begun 1610] in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
George Shelvocke : Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea, Performed in the Years 1719-1722
'As W[ordsworth] recalled in the Fenwick Note to We are Seven ... his reading of Shelvocke's Voyages inspired the killing of the albatross in C[oleridge]'s Ancient Mariner. W[ordsworth] dates this reading "a day or two before" the walking tour to Lynton - which would make it c.11-12 November 1797.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Charlotte Smith : [sonnets (two)]
'On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two more of Smith's compositions, both of which were first published in her novel, Celestina (1791), and reprinted as XLIX and LI in Elegiac Sonnets (6th edn, 1792) ... W[ordsworth]'s copies vary from both texts as published.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown
: Spectator, The
'In later years, W[ordsworth] recalled that under Agostino Isola "I translated the Vision of Mirza, and two or three other papers of the Spectator, into Italian" [Prose Works 3:373].'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Virgil : Aeneid
'On the inside cover of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 2, in use during 1786-7, a faint pencil inscription survives from c.1786: "Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula," from Virgil, Aeneid vi 37. In The Death of the Starling several pages later, we find the epigraph, "Sunt lacrimae rerum" ... from Aeneid i.462.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Virgil : Georgics
' ... as a student at Cambridge, W[ordsworth] made a number of translations from Virgil's Georgics .. surviving manuscripts indicate that the translations were made in summer 1788 and spring 1789.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Michaelangelo Buonarotti : [sonnet]
Version of Wordsworth's translation of Michaelangelo sonnet transcribed in letter to Sir George Beaumont, 8 Sept 1806.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
anon [working people] : ["half-penny Ballads"]
William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 1808: '... I find, among the people I am speaking of, half-penny Ballads, and penny and two-penny histories, in great abundance; these are often bought as charitable tributes to the poor Persons who hawk them about (and it is the best way of procuring them); they are frequently stitched together in tolerably thick volumes, and such I have read; some of the contents, though not often religious, very good; others objectionable, either for the superstition in them (such as prophecies, fortune-telling, etc.) or more frequently for indelicacy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: ["penny and two-penny histories"]
William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 1808: ' ... I find, among the people I am speaking of, half-penny Ballads, and penny and two-penny histories, in great abundance; these are often bought as charitable tributes to the poor Persons who hawk them about (and it is the best way of procuring them); they are frequently stitched together in tolerably thick volumes, and such I have read; some of the contents, though not often religious, very good; others objectionable, either for the superstition in them (such as prophecies, fortune-telling, etc.) or more frequently for indelicacy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
unknown : [magazine]
William Wordsworth to S.T. Coleridge, [5 May 1809]: 'Turning over an old Magazine three or four days ago I hit upon a paragraph stating that B. Flower had been fined ?100, and commited to Newgate for 4 months, for reflecting on the Union of Ireland, in some comments upon a speech of the bishop of Llandaff.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
William Wordsworth : Convention of Cintra, The
William Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 'Sunday Night, June 4th [1809]': 'Nothing but vexation seems to attend me in this affair of the Pamphlet [The Convention of Cintra]. Mr De Quincey according to my request sent me down ten stitched Pamphlets ... and it was not till today that I discovered that in two copies of those stitched the page which was cancelled remains as it first stood, the corrected leaf not having been substituted.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
John Milton : Paradise Lost
Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson (12 November 1810) with description of three nights' stay during October (c.26-29) 1810 at Hackett (overlooking Langdale and other Lakeland locations) with William and Mary Wordsworth, their four children and a maid: 'The weather was heavenly, when we were there, and the first morning we sate in hot sunshine on a crag, twenty yards from the door, while William read part of the 5th Book of the Paradise Lost to us. He read the Morning Hymn, while a stream of white vapour, which covered the Valley of Brathay, ascended slowly and by degrees melted away. It seemed as if we had never before felt deeply the power of the Poet ... '
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Captain Charles Pasley : An Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire
William Wordsworth to Captain Charles Pasley, 28 March 1811: 'Now for your book. I had expected it with great impatience, and desired a Friend to send it down to me immediately on its appearance, which he neglected to do. On this account, I did not see it till a few days ago. I have read it through twice, with great care, and many parts three or four times over.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: ['a little poem upon the comet']
William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account of a little poem upon the comet, which I have read in it to-day. Though with several defects ... it has great merit, and is far superior to the run not merely of newspaper but of modern poetry in general. I half suspect it to be Coleridge's ... I know of no other writer of the day who can write so well. It consists of five stanzas, in the measure of the Fairy Queen. It is to be found in last Saturday's paper, November 16th. If you don't see the Courier, we will transcribe it for you.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
: Courier, The
William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account of a little poem upon the comet, which I have read in it to-day. Though with several defects ... it has great merit, and is far superior to the run not merely of newspaper but of modern poetry in general. I half suspect it to be Coleridge's ... I know of no other writer of the day who can so so well. It consists of five stanzas, in the measure of the Fairy Queen. It is to be found in last Saturday's paper, November 16th. If you don't see the Courier, we will transcribe it for you.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
: [travel books]
William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, ['Early Spring 1812']: 'I see no new books except by the merest accident ... The only modern Books that I read are those of travels, or such as relate to Matters of fact; and the only modern books that I care for ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Miguel Cervantes : Don Quixote
Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu: 'The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant / Don Quixote of the Mancha / Written in Spanish by Michael Cervantes / Translated in to English / By Thomas Shelton / And now printed Verbatim from the 4to / Edit: of 1620 / With a curious set of new Cuts, from / the French of Coypel / London, printed for D. Midwinter &c. / M.DCCXL.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Samuel Rogers : Poems
William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 May 1814: 'I have to thank you for a Present of your Volume of Poems, received some time since, through the hands of Southey. I have read it with great pleasure.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
R. P. Gillies : Egbert, or, The Suicide
William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'I have to thank you ... for Egbert, which is pleasingly and vigorously written, and proves that with a due sacrifice of exertion, you will be capable of performing things that will have a strong claim on the regards of posterity. But keep, I pray you, to the great models; there is in some parts of this tale, particuarly page fourth, too much of a bad writer - Lord Byron ... towards the conclusion, the intervention of the peasant is not only unnecessary, but injurious to the tale ... '
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R. P. Gillies : Ruminator, The
William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'I have peeped into the Ruminator, and turned to your first letter, which is well executed, and seizes the attention very agreeably. Your longer poem I have barely looked into ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
R. P. Gillies : Childe Alarique, a poet's reverie with other poems
William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'Your longer poem I have barely looked into ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
James Hogg : Queen's Wake, The
William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'I thank you for the Queen's Wake; since I saw you in Edinburgh I have read it. It does Mr. Hogg great credit. Of the tales, I liked best ... the Witch of Fife, the former part of Kilmenie, and the Abbot Mackinnon.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
R. P. Gillies : Exile, The
William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'When your Letter arrived I was in the act of reading to Mrs W[ordsworth] your Exile, which pleased me more, I think, than anything that I have read of yours ... I was particularly charmed with the seventeenth stanza, first part ... which I shall often repeat to myself ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
R. P. Gillies : The Ruminator
William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have read the Ruminator, and I fear that I do not like it quite as much as you would wish. It wants depth and strength, yet it is pleasingly and elegantly written, and contains everywhere the sentiments of a liberal spirit.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
J. H. : Hunting of Badlew, a Dramatic Tale, The
William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'Mr. Hogg's Badlew (I suppose it to be his) I could not get through. There are two pretty passages; the flight of the deer, and the falling of the child from the rock of Stirling, though both are a little outre. But the story is coarsely conceived, and in my judgement, as coarsely executed ... the versification harsh and uncouth.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
:
William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have seen a book advertised under your name, which I suppose to be a novel.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Advertisement, Unknown
Lucien Bonaparte : Charlemagne, ou L'Eglise Sauvee, poeme epique en 24 chants
William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 14 February 1814, 'Have you read Lucien B[onaparte]' s Epic? I attempted it, but gave in at the 6th Canto, being pressed for time. I shall however recommence the Labor if an opportunity offers. But the three first Stanzas convinced me that L.B. was no poet.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Wordsworth : Excursion, The
Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs Knott yesterday with the Ex[cursio]n in hand, William intending to read to the old Lady the history of the Grasmere Knight. She could not hear his loud voice; but understood the story very well when her Niece read it, and was delighted.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Edmund Spenser : Fairy Queen, The
Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'It is 11 o'clock. William has been reading the Fairy Queen - he has laid aside his Book and Mary has set about putting her nightcap.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Christopher Wordsworth : sermons
Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and from her we learned that Chris[topher Wordsworth]'s sermons were just arrived at Brathay, so William walked to B. with Miss A. and borrowed one volume - It is the second. William and Mary have read several of the sermons and are very much delighted with them ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: [information about the Corn Laws]
Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'Buonaparte seems quite to have put the Corn Laws out of our heads. William has however carefully read all that has been said about them, and his opinion is ... that 80 is too high a price for the standard ... '
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Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 25 April 1815: 'You mentioned Guy Mannering in your last. I have read it. I cannot say that I was disappointed, for there is very considerable talent displayed ... But the adventures I think are not well chosen or well executed ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
John Scott : Visit to Paris in 1814
William Wordsworth to John Scott, 14 May 1815: 'Amid the hurry consequent upon a recent arrival, with a view to a short Residence in London - I have found leisure to peruse the volume [Scott's Visit to Paris (1815)] which you have presented to me ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Johann Joachim Winkelman : Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture, in a series of Letters'
William Wordsworth to B. R. Haydon, 21 December 1815: 'Have you read the works of the Abbe [Johann Joachim] Winkelman on the study of the Antique, in Painting and Sculpture ... His Works are unknown to me, except a short treatise entitled Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture, in a series of Letters. A translation of this is all I have read having met with it the other day upon a Stal[l] at Penrith ... This Book of mine was printed at Glasgow 1766.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Robert Southey : [Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo, The]
William Wordsworth to John Scott, 25 February 1816, on own and contemporaries' endeavours to celebrate victory at Waterloo in verse: 'Southey is a Fellow labourer. I have seen but little of his performance, but that little gave me great pleasure.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Christopher Wordsworth : A sermon preached in the Chapel of Lambeth at the Consecration of the Hon. and Right Rev. Henry Ryder, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, 1815
William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: 'We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of expense. We have read it with much pleasure, and unite in thinking it excellently adapted to the occasion. For my own part, I liked it still better upon the second than the first reading.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
R. P. Gillies : Illustrations of a Poetical Character, in six Tales, with other Poems
William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies (postmarked 9 April 1816): 'Your obliging Present [new book of poems] reached me yesterday ... I read the volume through immediately: and paid particular attention to the parts that were new to me.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: The Champion
William Wordsworth to John Scott: "I have read your late Champions with much pleasure"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
R. P. Gillies : Rinaldo, a desultory Poem
William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies: " ... your poem [Rinaldo] I have read with considerable attention."
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
R. P. Gillies : Oswald, A Metrical Tale
'I have read your Poem. I like it better than any of the preceding ones.'
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: case of Stuart versus Lovell
Wiliam Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 22 June 1817: 'By the bye, it was not till this morning that I read the case of Stuart versus Lovell. What a miscreant - If I had been upon the Jury, and had found that man possessed property that would bear the damages I should have fixed upon ?700 the precise sum which he accused you of embezzling ... '
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor : Coleridge
Wiliam Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 19 [Sept] 1817: 'I have not read Mr. Coleridge's "Biographia", having contented myself with skimming parts of it ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Lord Lonsdale :
William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 13 Feb 1818: 'I dined at the Wakefields yesterday. Mr John W. senior broke out on the dependent and enslaved State of the County etc. I said that I had accepted his Son's invitation, to testify my respect for his family, and my personal regard for his Son ... I begged to state that as to the fact of the county being represented by two of the Family of Lowther no person lamented it more than your Lordship. I then read part of that sentence in your Letter where you speak of it as a misfortune ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter
:
Transcribed in letter from William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c.25 February 1818]: 'If money I lack The shirt on my back Shall off - and go to the hammer; For though with bare skin By G- I'll be in, And raise up a radical clamour! Placard for a Poll bearing an old Shirt.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Handbill
: Kendal Chronicle
William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly concerned to see that the Liberty of the Press should be so grossly abused. This Paper as now conducted reminds me almost at every sentence of those which I used to read in France during the heat of the Revolution.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
: [French newspapers]
William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly concerned to see that the Liberty of the Press should be so grossly abused. This Paper as now conducted reminds me almost at every sentence of those which I used to read in France during the heat of the Revolution.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
Thomas Clarkson :
William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [27 March 1818]: 'I should at this moment determine to go over to Lowther tomorrow, did I not think that I may be more useful to the cause, by remaining at home for the purpose of preparing an answer to a Letter of Mr Clarkson to the Kendal Comm: of Brougham, which will appear in the Chronicle tomorrow; and which I am sure will injure your interests ... The original of the Letter I have seen, but could not procure a copy. - It was shewn me by Mr Crackenthorp [of opposing party interest] with the high-flying expression, "We reckon it as good as 50 votes!"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter
Thomas De Quincey : Close Comments on a Straggling Speech
William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 6 April 1818: 'Had the Correspondence [between Henry Brougham and William Wilberforce, 1806] been published upon Mr B[rougham]'s first appearance in the Country, I think it might have done much service ... the sooner it sees the light the better. With Lord L[owther']'s approbation I have glanced at it, in a passage added to some able Comments on Mr B[rougham]'s first speech at Kendal, by a Friend of mine, which are about to appear.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Henry Brougham : A Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly upon the Abuse of Charities
William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 22 September 1818: 'Your two interesting Letters, the Pamphlet, and Sun and Chronicle, have been duly received ... The Pamphlet I have carefully read ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Viscount Lowther :
William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 8 December 1818: 'I have seen Mr Fleming, and told him everything you wished ... I read him a considerable part of your last Letter ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter
: Blackwood's Magazine
William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I know little of Blackwood's Magazine, and wish to know less. I have seen in it articles so infamous that I do not chuse to let it enter my doors. The Publishers sent it to me some time ago, and I begged (civilly you will take for granted) not to be troubled with it any longer.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Francis Wrangham : translation of Virgil, Eclogues
William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of Virgil's Eclogues, which reached me at last. I have lately compared it line for line with the original, and think it very well done ... I think I mentioned to you that these Poems of Virgil have always delighted me much; there is frequently in them an elegance and a happiness that no translation can hope to equal. In point of fidelity your translation is very good indeed.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Virgil : Eclogues
William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of Virgil's Eclogues, which reached me at last. I have lately compared it line for line with the original, and think it very well done ... I think I mentioned to you that these Poems of Virgil have always delighted me much; there is frequently in them an elegance and a happiness that no translation can hope to equal. In point of fidelity your translation is very good indeed.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
: [List of Applicants for Enfranchisement]
William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 7 April 1819: 'Having occasion to go to Sockbridge along with our Rector, Mr Jackson, I begged of Mr Lumb to meet us there. he did so - he shewed us a List of Applicants for Enfranchisement ... '
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: Quarterly Review
William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 22 May [1819]: 'I have deferred thanking your Lordship for your kind attention in sending me (through the hands of Col: Lowther) the Q[uarterly]. R[eview]., till I could give it an attentive perusal. This I have now done, and been most gratified.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
: [list of new freeholders]
William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'On looking over Mr Lumb's list of new freeholders in this neighbourhood, I was sorry to find that half a dozen whose names I expected to see were not there - owing, principally to delays at Kendal in executing the deeds ... '
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
: Edinburgh Review
William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'I have seen the Article in the E[dinburgh]. R[eview]. [re Charities Question] - it is as your Lordship describes, feeble and false ... '
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Hans Busk : Vestriad, The
William Wordsworth to Hans Busk, 6 July 1819: 'Dear Sir, Your writings are not to be hurried over; this must plead my excuse for not having thanked you earlier for the "Vestriad"; which, though detained on the road, by a fault of some of Mr Longman's people ... reached me some time since ... I was particularly pleased with the descents into the submarine regions, and the infernal. These two Cantos I liked best ... The serious passages ... will excite a wish in many as they did in me, that you would favour the world with something in downright earnest ... I noticed in your Vestriad with particular pleasure, your flight in the Balloon.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: Guardian, The
William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. It promises well but a weekly London paper crowded with advertizements, is not likely to suit the Country. It is dated Sunday, also; this would prove an objection to its circulation in many houses in the country, especially as I observe Quack medicines, etc. etc. - advertized.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
: advertisements
William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. It promises well but a weekly London paper crowded with advertizements, is not likely to suit the Country. It is dated Sunday, also; this would prove an objection to its circulation in many houses in the country, especially as I observe Quack medicines, etc. etc. - advertized.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
[A Westmorland Inhabitant and Freeholder] Anon : unknown
William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misrepresentation of the words you used upon the searching for arms Bill ... I was requested to animadvert upon this Letter, which indeed I had felt some disposition to do when I first read it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
: Kendal Chronicle, The
William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misrepresentation of the words you used upon the searching for arms Bill ... I was requested to animadvert upon this Letter, which indeed I had felt some disposition to do when I first read it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
Helen Maria Williams : The Charter; addressed to my nephew Athanase C. L. Coquerel, on his wedding day, 1819
William Wordsworth (visiting Paris) to Helen Maria Williams, [15 October 1820], 'I had the honour of receiving your letter yesterday Evening, together with the several copies of your tender and beautiful Verses ... Allow me this opportunity of expressing the pleasure I shall have in possessing this little tribute from yourself - as also, the gratification which the perusal of both the Poems [including 'The Charter'] has afforded me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown
unknown : unknown
Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820, on her nephew William's academic progress: '...he seems yet to have little or no satisfaction in reading alone. He draws and writes of himself but never takes up a Book except when I require it [of him]. I must say he always does it cheefully.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Aristotle : unknown
Copied by William Wordsworth into letter to Lady Beaumont, 12 March 1805: 'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues and Vices "It is the property of fortitude not to be easily terrified by the dread of things pertaining to death; to possess good confidence in things terrible, & presence of mind in dangers; rather to prefer to be put to death worthily, than to be preserved basely; & to be the cause of victory. Further, it is the property of fortitude to labour and endure, and to make valorous exertion an object of choice. But presence of mind, a well-disposed soul, confidence and boldness are the attendants on fortitude: - and besides these industry and patience."'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Robert Bloomfield : Farmer's Boy, The
S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short extracts) pleased us very much.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Henry Brougham : review of Byron, Hours of Idleness
'[Samuel] Rogers reported W[ordsworth]'s reaction to Brougham's harsh review of Byron's first volume: "Wordsworth was spending an evening at Charles Lamb's, when he saw the said critique, which had just appeared. He read it through, and remarked that 'though Byron's verses were probably poor enough, such an attack was abominable ... "'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Henry Brougham : review of Byron, Hours of Idleness
Henry Crabb Robinson on Wordsworth's reading of Henry Brougham's review of Byron, Hours of Idleness: 'I was sitting with Charles Lamb when Wordsworth came in, with fume on his countenance, and the Edinburgh Review in his hand. "I have no patience with these reviewers," he said, "here is a young man, a lord, and a minor ... and these fellows attack him, as if no one may write poetry unless he lives in a garret."'
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
John Lanne Buchanan : Travels in the Western Hebrides, 1782 to 1790
'W[ordsworth] copied a set of extracts from Buchanan into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ... probably between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Dr Currie : Life of Burns
'"I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some of the letters, particularly of those composed in the latter part of the poet's life," W[ordsworth] wrote in the Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns (1816) ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Robert Burns : letters
'"I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some of the letters, particularly of those composed in the latter part of the poet's life," W[ordsworth] wrote in the Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns (1816) ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II
'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord Byron's new poem whch is not destitute of merit; though ill-planned, and often unpleasing in the sentiments, and almost always perplexed in the construction."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lara
'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped yesterday evening into a Bookseller's shop with a sneaking hope that I might hear something about the Excursion ... on the contrary, inquiry of the Bookseller what a poetical parcel he was then opening consisted of, he said that it was a new Poem, called Lara ... supposed to be written by Lord Byron ... I took the book in my hand, and saw Jacqueline in the same column with Lara ... "'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Samuel Rogers : Jacqueline
'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped yesterday evening into a Bookseller's shop with a sneaking hope that I might hear something about the Excursion ... on the contrary, inquiry of the Bookseller what a poetical parcel he was then opening consisted of, he said that it was a new Poem, called Lara ... supposed to be written by Lord Byron ... I took the book in my hand, and saw Jacqueline in the same column with Lara ... "'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Gabriello Chiabrera : Delle Opere di Gabriello Chiabrera
'W[ordsworth] translated ten epitaphs from Chiabrera's Opere ... probably ...between 26 Oct. and 4 Nov. 1809.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
John Clanvowe : Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale
'W[ordsworth] seems to have translated ... [John Clanvowe, Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale] on 7 and 8 Dec. 1801, and made a fair copy on 9 Dec.'
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: [summary of Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative to the Armistice & Convention, &c. made and concluded in Portugal, in August 1808, between the Commanders of the British and French Armies ...]
' ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
unknown : Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative to the Armistice & Convention, &c. made and concluded in Portugal, in August 1808, between the Commanders of the British and French Armies ...
" ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth]. Aware of W[ordsworth]'s interest in the Convention of Cintra, [Daniel] Stuart offered him a copy of the pamphlet ... De Quincey sent one to Grasmere ... where it arrived on 1 April 1809 ... W[ordsworth] had read it by 26 April ... "
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Sneyd Davies : Against Indolence. An Epistle
Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in Dr Enfield's Exercises of Elocution or Speaker, I forget which.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Enfield : Speaker, The
Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in Dr Enfield's Exercises of Elocution or Speaker, I forget which.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Rene Descartes : unknown
'W[ordsworth copied quotations from Descartes into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31, leaves 71-2, c. Feb 1801.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Michael Drayton : Elegy to my dearly loved Friend, Henry Reynolds, Esq. of Poets and Poesy
'On the recto of a fragment of W[ordsworth]'s Prospectus to The Recluse [Dove Cottage MS 24], there appear the following lines: "That noble Chaucer, in those former times, That first enrich'd our English with his rhimes, And was the first of ours that ever brake Into the Muses' treasure, and first spake In weighty numbr, devlving in the mine Of perfect knowledge."'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Maria Edgeworth : unknown
'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: Gazette, The
De Quincey to Southey, 31 May 1811: 'We received the Gazette last night, and were a little disappointed by it,: Wordsworth indeed was greatly mortified ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
William Godwin : Lives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupils of Milton
Mary Lamb to Mrs Morgan and Charlotte Brant, 22 May 1815: 'Godwin has just published a new book ... Wordsworth has just now looked into it and found these words "All modern poetry is nothing but the old, genuine poetry , new [vam]ped, and delivered to us at second, or twentieth hand." In great wrath he took a pencil and wrote in the margin "That is false, William Godwin. Signed William Wordsworth."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
James Grahame : Birds of Scotland
'W[ordsworth] copied out seven lines of Grahame's poem [Birds of Scotland] in a letter to Lady Beaumont of Dec. 1806, written at Coleorton, commending it as "exquisite".'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Francis Jeffrey : review of Thalaba
'[Wordsworth's] first mention of ... [Francis Jeffrey, review of Robert Southey, Thalaba, in the Edinburgh Review 1 (Oct 1802)] comes in a letter of Jan. 1804 to [John] Thelwall ... "That review of Thalaba I never read entirely, having only seen it in a Country Bookseller's shop, who would not permit me to cut open the Leaves, as he only had it upon trial."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Walter Savage Landor : Simoneida
Wordsworth to Walter Savage Landor, 20 April 1822: 'In your Simoneida, which I saw some years ago at Mr Southey's, I was pleased to find rather an out-of-the-way image, in which the present hour is compared to the shade on the dial.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Harriet Lee : German's Tale, The
'De Quincey recalled the time ... when he persuaded W[ordsworth] to read [Harriet] Lee's The German's Tale: 'This most splendid tale I put into the hands of Wordsworth; and, for once, having, I suppose, nothing else to read, he condescended to run through it. I shall not report his opinion, which, in fact, was no opinion ... "'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
: [newspapers]
Wordsworth to Hazlitt, 5 March 1804: "I was sorry to see from the Papers that your Friend poor Fawcett was dead; not so much that he was dead but to think of the manner in which he had sent himself off before his time.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
Willam Blake : [lyrics]
'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Andrew Marvell : Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, An
'Prelude MS W [Dove Cottage MS 38)] contains a transcription of Marvell's Horatian Ode dating from late 1802.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Michaelangelo : [sonnets]
'W[ordsworth] was reading Michaelangelo's sonnets with a view to translating them from Dec 1804; his work on them proceeded ... throughout 1805-06, and apparentlly less intensively in 1807.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
John Milton : Paradise Lost
'During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Paradise Lost - including Book I and Book VI, lines 767-84. Beaumont wrote to W[ordsworth] on 6 Nov., recalling "that sublime passage in Milton you read the other night ... where he describes ... the Messiah's ... coming as shining afar off ..."'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
anon : Eclectic Review
Recorded in Joseph Farington's diary, '[On 21 May] Sir George [Beaumont] mentioned the high encomiums for Wordsworth's "Excursion" in the Eclectic Review. Wordsworth had seen it, and could not but be pleased with the sentiments expressed in it."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Lindley Murray : Introduction to the English Reader
'In the Fenwick Note to The Pet-lamb, W[ordsworth] recalled: "Within a few months after the publication of this poem, I was much surprised and more hurt to find it in a child's School-book which, having been compiled by Lindley Murray, had come into use at Grasmere School ... "'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
"On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont: "'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, which with the life I have nearly read through. Several of the discourses I had read before though never regularly together: they have very much added to the high opinion which I before entertained of Sir Joshua Reynolds.' "W[ordsworth's first comprehensive reading of Reynolds' works can be dated to four or five days in the middle of July 1804."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Sir Joshua Reynolds : Discourses
"On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont: "'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, which with the life I have nearly read through. Several of the discourses I had read before though never regularly together: they have very much added to the high opinion which I before entertained of Sir Joshua Reynolds.' "W[ordsworth]'s first comprehensive reading of Reynolds' works can be dated to four or five days in the middle of July 1804. He had, of course, referred to the Discourses in the 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts
"On 5 Jan 1806 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont; "'My Brother chanced to meet with Richardson's letters at a Friend's house, and glancing over them, read those written by Mrs Klopstock, he was exceedingly affected by them and said it was impossible to read them without loving the woman.'"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Daniel Sennertus : unknown
'[Mark L.] Reed reports that W[ordsworth] copied quotations from Sennertus into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31 ... c.Feb.1801. They appear to have been copied from C[oleridge]'s transcriptions ... '
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
William Sotheby : I knew a gentle maid
'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby: "I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch I had read with no little pleasure more than 30 years ago. "I knew a gentle Maid".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Sotheby : I knew a gentle maid
'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby: "I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch I had read with no little pleasure more than 30 years ago. "I knew a gentle Maid".'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Alaric Watts : Souvenir
'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby: "I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch I had read with no little pleasure more than 30 years ago. "I knew a gentle Maid".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Jeremy Taylor : Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, A
'On 13 May 1812 [Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded in his diary: "William Wordsworth was more afraid of the liberal than the methodistic party on the bench of bishops, and read a beautiful passage from Jeremy Taylor on the progress of religious dissensions from his Dissuasive against Popery."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Thomas Wilkinson : Tours to the British Mountains
'W[ordsworth] copied from ... [Thomas Wilkinson's MS "Tours of the British Mountains"] the passage which had inspired the Solitary Reaper [about a female reaper singing in Erse], alongside another related to The Excursion, into his Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26, ie "Wordsworth Commonplace Book"] ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown
John Wilson : [MS poems]
'On 13 May 1812, [Henry Crabb] Robinson asked W[ordsworth] about [John] Wilson's recently-published volume, The Isle of Palms: "He said he had seen only a few". W[ordsworth] added that "Wilson's poems are an attenuation of mine ... "... his letter to M[ary] W[ordsworth] of 23 May ... mentions one of Wilson's poems; "which we had in Mss., to the sleeping Child and which is but an Attenuation of my ode to the Highland Girl."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown
Francis Wrangham : [poem]
'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annual] Anthology."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Various : Annual Anthology
'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annual] Anthology."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Wordsworth : The Seven Sisters
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 17 August 1800: 'Wm read us The Seven Sisters on a stone.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth : Peter Bell
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o'clock -- mended stockings and Wm. read Peter Bell. He read us the poem of Joanna, beside the Rothay by the roadside.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth : To Joanna
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o'clock -- mended stockings and Wm. read Peter Bell. He read us the poem of Joanna, beside the Rothay by the roadside.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth : To Joanna
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, and the Firgrove, to Coleridge ... The morning was delightful ...'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth : The Firgrove
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, and the Firgrove, to Coleridge ... The morning was delightful ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet
William Wordsworth : Ruth
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 22 October 1800: 'Wm. read after supper, Ruth etc.; Coleridge Christabel.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth : Point Rash Judgement
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 November 1800: 'Wm. somewhat better [having been suffering from piles] -- read Point Rash Judgement.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet
Edmund Spenser : unknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 16 November 1801: '... [William] is now, at 7 o'clock, reading Spenser.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Edmund Spenser : unknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'After tea Wm. read Spenser, now and then a little aloud to us.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Wordsworth : The Pedlar
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: '[while Mary Hutchinson walked to Ambleside] I stayed at home and clapped the small linen. Wm. sate beside me, and read The Pedlar.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet
William Wordsworth : The Pedlar
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'In the afternoon ... I mended Wm.'s stockings while he was reading The Pedlar.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter
: [magazines]
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 27 January, 1802: 'When we returned from Frank [Baty]'s, Wm. wasted his mind in the Magazines.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
William Wordsworth : The Recluse
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 February, 1802: 'William read parts of his Recluse aloud to me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet
William Wordsworth : Peter Bell
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 22 February, 1802: ' ... Mr. Simpson came in. Wm. began to read Peter Bell to him, so I carried my writing to the kitchen fire.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet
Bishop Joseph Hall : unknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: 'Darkish when we reached home [from walk] ... William now reading in Bishop Hall ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
unknown : unknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner Wm. also read.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Ben Jonson : unknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'William was reading in Ben Jonson -- he read me a beautiful poem on Love.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Ben Jonson : unknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a little German ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Wordsworth : [poem]
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: 'I went and sate with W. and walked backwards and forwards in the orchard till dinner time. He read me his poem.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet
William Wordsworth : [poem]
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: '... we sate a while ... [in the orchard]. I left ... [William Wordsworth], and he nearly finished the poem ... I went to bed before him -- he came down to me, and read the Poem to me in bed.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet
William Wordsworth : The Pedlar
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 20 March 1802: 'After tea Wm. read The Pedlar.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet
Ben Jonson : unknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'He [William Wordsworth] is now reading Ben Jonson ... It is about 10 o'clock, a quiet night. The fire flutters, and the watch ticks. I hear nothing else save the breathing of my Beloved, and he now and then pushes his book forward, and turns over a leaf.'
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Wordsworth : verses
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 4 May 1802, describing excursion to local river and waterfall: 'We [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, and S. T. Coleridge] ... rested upon a moss-covered rock, rising out of the bed of the river. There we lay ... and stayed there till about 4 o'clock. William and C[oleridge]. repeated and read verses.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Sheet
Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sate by a nice snug fire, and William read Spenser, and I read As You Like It.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Charlotte Smith : Elegiac Sonnets
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea ... My beloved William is turning over the leaves of Charlotte Smith's sonnets ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Sonnets
"[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's copy of a set of the Works of the British Poets, in which both he and Coleridge's brother-in-law Robert Southey had made manuscript notes."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Jane Austen : unknown
'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, but Mr. Wordsworth used to say that though he admitted that her novels were an admirable copy of life, he could not be interested in productions of that kind; unless the truth of nature were presented to him clarified, as it were, by the pervading light of imagination, it had scarce any attractions in his eyes...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Edmund Spenser : unknown
Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to me a great deal from Spenser, and afterwards his own "Laodamia," my favourite "Tintern Abbey," and many of those noble sonnets which you, like myself, enjoy so much.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
William Wordsworth : Laodamia
Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to me a great deal from Spenser, and afterwards his own "Laodamia," my favourite "Tintern Abbey," and many of those noble sonnets which you, like myself, enjoy so much.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth : Lines. Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, 13th July 1798
Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to me a great deal from Spenser, and afterwards his own "Laodamia," my favourite "Tintern Abbey," and many of those noble sonnets which you, like myself, enjoy so much.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth : sonnets
Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to me a great deal from Spenser, and afterwards his own "Laodamia," my favourite "Tintern Abbey," and many of those noble sonnets which you, like myself, enjoy so much.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Felicia Hemans : uncollected poems
William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in my way before they were collected; and had given me more or less pleasure [...] the pleasure is yet to come of perusing your Pieces in succession. I can only say that whenever I have peeped into the volume -- I have been well recompensed. This morning I glanced my eye over the Pilgrim Song to the evening Star with great pleasure.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Felicia Hemans : National Lyrics and Songs for Music
William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in my way before they were collected; and had given me more or less pleasure [...] the pleasure is yet to come of perusing your Pieces in succession. I can only say that whenever I have peeped into the volume -- I have been well recompensed. This morning I glanced my eye over the Pilgrim Song to the evening Star with great pleasure.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Felicia Hemans : "Pilgrim's Song to the Evening Star"
William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in my way before they were collected; and had given me more or less pleasure [...] the pleasure is yet to come of perusing your Pieces in succession. I can only say that whenever I have peeped into the volume -- I have been well recompensed. This morning I glanced my eye over the Pilgrim Song to the evening Star with great pleasure.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Felicia Hemans : Scenes and Hymns of Life &c
William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he was the dedicatee: 'This morning I have read the stanzas upon "Elysium" with great pleasure. You have admirably expanded the thought of Chateaubriand.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Felicia Hemans : "Elysium"
William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he was the dedicatee: 'This morning I have read the stanzas upon "Elysium" with great pleasure. You have admirably expanded the thought of Chateaubriand.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett : unknown
William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 October 1842: 'I had the gratification of receiving a good while ago, two copies of a volume of your writing, which I have read with [italics]much[end italics] pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth : [MS narrative]
'Ask [Mrs Davy] to let you see Miss Wordsworth's MS. account of the two poor Greens who were lost in the snow. Wordsworth said it was the most perfect [italics] English [end italics] narrative he ever read.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown
William Wordsworth : 'Highland sonnets'
James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834: 'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them, and so does composing. I believe it was a series of Highland sonnets that brought on the last attack [...] He read me several, that I had not seen or heard before, many of them admirably good: also a long romantic wizard and fairy poem, of the time of Merlin and king Arthur, very pretty but not of the first order: but I should not have expected anything so good from him which was so much out of his beat.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Unknown
William Wordsworth : 'The Egyptian Maid, or, The Romance of the Water Lily'
James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834: 'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them, and so does composing. I believe it was a series of Highland sonnets that brought on the last attack [...] He read me several, that I had not seen or heard before, many of them admirably good: also a long romantic wizard and fairy poem, of the time of Merlin and king Arthur, very pretty but not of the first order: but I should not have expected anything so good from him which was so much out of his beat.'
