| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'lucy / wordsworth she dwelt in the untrodden ways,beside the springs of dove...' Transcribes text but with significan... | Mary Groom | William Wordsworth | Song: she dwelt among th' untrodden ways | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Wordsworth | Benjamin the Waggoner | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former groc... | [a grocer] Anon | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In compliance with frequent entreaties I took the MSS [of The White Doe of Rylstone] to [Charles] Lamb's to read it, ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | White Doe of Rylstone, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe;... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | White Doe of Rylstone, The | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Transcription of William Wordsworh, "Fidelity" in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 2 March 1806 (first... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Fidelity | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | Transcription of William Wordsworth, "Star-Gazers" appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 15 Nove... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Star-Gazers | Unknown |
| | Transcription of William Wordsworth, 'The Force of Prayer' appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall,... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Force of Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 'Sunday Night, June 4th [1809]':
'Nothing but vexation seems to attend me in thi... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Convention of Cintra, The | |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 18 Novembr [1809]: 'Sara [Hutchinson] has been kept almost constantly busy i... | Sara Hutchinson | William Wordsworth | Introduction to Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, by the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, Rector of East and West Wretham, in the County of Norfolk and Chaplain to the Marquis of Huntly | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... | Chaim Lewis | William Wordsworth | 'Daffodils' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Writing to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814, Dorothy Wordsworth gives transcription of version of William Wordswor... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Yarrow Visted | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'Your anecdote of Tom [?Thomas Clarkson] that he sate up a... | Tom ?Clarkson | William Wordsworth | ?Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs Kn... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815:
'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs ... | Miss Knott | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she h... | Hannah More | William Wordsworth | extracts from The Excursion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 31 December 1815: 'In reading the 3rd Book of the Excursion last night what ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1819: 'Mr Monkhouse will probably have shewn you the copy of ... | Christopher Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | letter to Revd. John Russell | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Lonsdale to William Wordsworth, 1 May 1820: 'I have read the Sonnets on the Duddon, and the notes annexed to them... | Lord Lonsdale | William Wordsworth | River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 1 August 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coler... | Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 17 August 1800: 'Wm read us The Seven Sisters on a stone.' | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Seven Sisters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Peter Bell | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | To Joanna | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, a... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | To Joanna | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, a... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Firgrove | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 6 October 1800: 'After tea read The Pedlar.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 22 October 1800: 'Wm. read after supper, Ruth etc.; Coleridge Christa... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Ruth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 November 1800: 'Wm. somewhat better [having been suffering from pile... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Point Rash Judgement | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: '[while Mary Hutchinson walked to Ambleside] I stayed ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'In the afternoon ... I mended Wm.'s stockings while h... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, about how she spent Saturday, 23 January 1802: '[after walking in cold] O how c... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Descriptive Sketches | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 February, 1802: 'We sate by the fire, and ... read the Pedlar, thinkin... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 February, 1802: '... we read the first part of the poem [ie The Pr... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 February, 1802: 'William read parts of his Recluse aloud to me.' | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Recluse | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 22 February, 1802: ' ... Mr. Simpson came in. Wm. began to read Peter B... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Peter Bell | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'After Tea I worked and read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'We sate by the fire in the evening, and read The Pedlar ... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 March 1802: 'Mr. Simpson came in just as [William Wordsworth] was fin... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Butterfly (and other poems) | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 March 1802: 'We sate reading the poems, and I read a little German.' | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: 'I went and sate with W. and walked backwards and forw... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | [poem] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: '... we sate a while ... [in the orchard]. I left ...... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | [poem] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 20 March 1802: 'After tea Wm. read The Pedlar.' | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 18 April 1802: 'I went to drink tea at Luff's ... William met me at Ryda... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Robin and the Butterfly | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 4 May 1802, describing excursion to local river and waterfall: 'We [Dor... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Alfred Baker Strettell | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve... | Alice Thompson | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this ni... | Leslie Stephen | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for t... | Edmund Gosse | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio... | Beatrice Webb | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although... | Hannah Mitchell | William Wordsworth | poems | Print: Book |
| | David Bleich, "Gender Interests in Reading and Language": "I first 'understood' Wordsworth when I heard his poetry rea... | Jonathan Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | George Eliot | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | John Stuart Mill | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | John Ruskin | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | Alfred Tennyson | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition ... | Wordsworth Family | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "On a visit to the Quantocks... William Hale Wh... | William Hale White | William Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "I stayed for the night in Derby, visiting its various printing offices in search of a job, but without success, and, ... | John Bedford Leno | William Wordsworth | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's co... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Wordsworth | annotations on Shakespeare's sonnets in The Works of the British Poets | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Wordsworth with one of the younger classes but it is difficult to explain to people of purely Indian ass... | Sir Walter Raleigh | William Wordsworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | William Wordsworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Wordsworth | Prelude, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but on... | Gwen Raverat | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | Lucy Gray | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | We are seven | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Daffodils | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. i... | George Henry Lewes | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.' | George Henry Lewes | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Highland Girl | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Solitary Reaper | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Calls on Hookham and brings home Wordsworths Excursion of which we read a part - much disappointed - he is a slave'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, a poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads the "Excursion" all day & reads the "History of Margeret" to PBS'. | Mary Godwin | William Wordsworth | The excursion, being a portion of the recluse, a poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This is to let you know that I am at present in the classiz neighbourhood of Bolton Abbey whither I was led the other... | Alfred Tennyson | William Wordsworth | The white doe of Rylstone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Laodamia | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | 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 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | sonnets | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Excursion & Madoc.' | Mary Godwin | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, Being a portion of the Recluse, a poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | William Wordsworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley... brings home Wordsworth's Excursion of which we read a part - much disapointed - He is a slave'. | Mary Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do not claim that I understood all Wordsworth's poems but I liked the descriptive parts and committed to memory all... | Hannah Mitchell | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | William Wordsworth | [The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton Abbey] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | William Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | William Wordsworth | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lately I have been reading Wordsworth with joy, for almost the first time. "Michael" quite overcame me by its perfec... | Arnold Bennett | William Wordsworth | 'Michael' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner look over W. W.[ordsworth]'s Poems'. | Mary Godwin | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set for... | anon | William Wordsworth | The Excursion (excerpts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Wordsworths Poems aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us
the Ancient Mariner [...... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. &
Mad [...] Mother.'
... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | 'The Mad Mother' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday March 16th. Go in the Morning to the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- sit on the steps of the temple of Escul... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. [...] 27th. [...] Mr. Armfeld & the little Bielfeld spent the Evening -- we read
Wordsworth's Ballad of... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | 'Simon Lee' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | Peter Bell: a tale in verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 13 April 1842:
'I send you back the [italics]two[end italics] books with a great ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 April 1842:
'Dear Mr Kenyon lent me Wordsworth's new volume two days ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843:
'Mr Kenyon came to see me yesterday [...] and he brought ... | John Kenyon | William Wordsworth | letter to Crabbe Robinson | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 18 May 1843:
'[William Wordsworth] had the kindness to send me the poem upon... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Grace Darling | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 December 1843:
'On my return from a long, weary walk through mud & mist, y... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | epitaph for Robert Southey | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844:
'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | 'Sonnet on the Projected Kendal and Winandermere Railway' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 18 September 1936:
'The Prelude. Have you read it lately? Do you know, it's so good,... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 5 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred
upon an afternoon readi... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | 'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and... | James Hogg and John Wilson | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his... | Francis Jeffrey | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hear nothing of the literary world very interesting except that people are commending some of Lord Byron's melodies... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Poems by William Wordsworth, including Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 June 1940: '[Lord] Haw-Haw, objectively announcing defeat -- victory on his side of the line, that is -- a... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... ... | Antonia White | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... ... | Emily Coleman | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh dear, [...] that's what comes of living alone in the rain and reading Wordsworth.' | Vita Sackville-West | William Wordsworth | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | William Wordsworth | 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I
read over the other day a... | Margaret De Quincey | William Wordsworth | "She Was a Phantom of Delight" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | 'Sonnet on Napoleon' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941), under heading 'Wordsworth on Machinery':
'"Nor shall your p... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | Sonnets of the Imagination XLII | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Perhaps, I thought, Wordsworth or Browning or Shelley would have some consolation to offer; all through the War poetr... | Vera Brittain | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I flung myself on my bed afterwards and tried to get some comfort from the volume of Wordsworth which had been the de... | Vera Brittain | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834:
'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them,... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | 'Highland sonnets' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834:
'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them,... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | 'The Egyptian Maid, or, The Romance of the Water Lily' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | William Wordsworth | 'Michael' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | William Wordsworth | The Recluse | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I admired many of his [Wordsworth's] pieces exceedingly, though I had not then seen his ponderous "Excursion"'. | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.' | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis' | Helen Rawlings | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.' | Elizabeth Edminson | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis' | Constance Wallis | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'a short paper on Wordsworth and Poetic diction was read by the Secretary' | Alfred Rawlings | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: '...but there is a man, whose name is not known in... | Robert Southey | William Wordsworth | The Borderers | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | William Wordsworth | Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson... | John Ruskin | William Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Charles E. Stansfield | William Wordsworth | Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | Unknown |