√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] received a copy [of the Annual Anthology] in Aug. [1799], and discussed it in his letter to [Joseph] Cot... | William Wordsworth | | Annual Anthology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "In Feb. 1834, W[ordsworth] remembered having first read Crabbe in the Annual Register during the 1780s; there he also... | William Wordsworth | | Annual Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] was introduced to The Minstrel by his teacher, Thomas Bowman ... during his schooldays at Hawkshead. De... | William Wordsworth | James Beattie | Minstrel, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] did not read it [Thomas Beddoes, Domiciliary Verses] until it was reprinted in the Annual Anthology (179... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Beddoes | Domiciliary Verses | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to "make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which ... | William Wordsworth | John Bell | Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "In the Fenwick Note to the Intimations Ode, W[ordsworth] recalled that at school 'I used to brood over the stories of... | William Wordsworth | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At some point after 1828, W[ordsworth] told Alexander Dyce that he read Bowles's Fourteen Sonnets on publication: "Wh... | William Wordsworth | William Lisle Bowles | Fourteen Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at... | William Wordsworth | Miguel de Cervantes Savedra | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at... | William Wordsworth | Alain Rene Le Sage | Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at... | William Wordsworth | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swi... | William Wordsworth | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swi... | William Wordsworth | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Car... | William Wordsworth | William Collins | An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | "On 27 July 1799, W[ordsworth] told Cottle that 'Looking over some old monthly Magazines I saw a paragraph stating tha... | William Wordsworth | | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth] recollected that at Hawkshead ... ' ... I, with the other boys of the same standing, was put upon readin... | William Wordsworth | Euclid | Elements I-IV, VI | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth] read the copy [of John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable] preserved today ... | William Wordsworth | John Foxe | Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth]'s note to Descriptive Sketches 428 reads: 'These summer hamlets are probably (as I have seen observed by... | William Wordsworth | | Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | "'I have received from [Basil] Montagu, Godwyn's second edition,' reports W[ordsworth] on 21 March 1796: 'I expect to ... | William Wordsworth | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "On 27 Feb. 1799, W[ordsworth] told [S. T.] C[oleridge] that 'My internal prejudge[ments con]cerning Wieland and Goeth... | William Wordsworth | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | "Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of ... | William Wordsworth | Paul Hentzner | A Journey into England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "in spring 1800 ... [Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ..." | William Wordsworth | Robert Heron | Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Countries of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "In late Nov. 1795, W[ordsworth] wrote to [Francis] Wrangham: " ... we see only here a provincial weekly paper ..." | William Wordsworth | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | "[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] once left the young W[ordsworth] in his study for a moment and returned t... | William Wordsworth | Isaac Newton | Opticks | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly ... | William Wordsworth | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber... | William Wordsworth | Pliny | Epistolarum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Attacking W[ordsworth]'s 'one-sidedness' in 1840, De Quincey records: 'One of Mrs Radcliffe's romances, viz. 'The Ita... | William Wordsworth | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Christopher Wordsworth Jr. wrote of W[ordsworth]: 'The week before he took his degree he passed his time in reading C... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth] owned and read the French translation of Coxe during his residence in France, 1791-2." | William Wordsworth | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "In 1843, W[ordsworth] recalled his research for The Borderers: ' ... having a wish to colour the manners in some degr... | William Wordsworth | George Redpath | The Border History of England and Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Southey, W[ordsworth] told [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795, "is about publishing an epic poem on the subject of the Ma... | William Wordsworth | Robert Southey | Joan of Arc | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our ... | William Wordsworth | Lawrence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our ... | William Wordsworth | | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] read "Christian's own Account of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty, commanded by Captain Bli... | William Wordsworth | | Weekly Entertainer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "My Brother has read Mr Price's Book on the picturesque ... " | William Wordsworth | Uvedale Price | Essay on the Picturesque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[illia]m [Wordsworth] has read most of Mr Clarkson's book and has been much pleased, but he complains of the second ... | William Wordsworth | 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. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth: 'I read in the papers with great pain the account of Mungo Park's disastrous end ... ' | William Wordsworth | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope the execrable Murderer will prove to have been an Irishman; the Scotch much to their honour have hitherto been... | William Wordsworth | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I often think of the happy evening when, by your fireside, my Brother read to us the first book of the Paradise lost ... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have recei... | William Wordsworth | Hutchinson | Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had read his [Thomas Clarkson's] book ... William [Wordsworth] I believe made a few remarks upon paper, but he had... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cannot express how much pleasure my Brother has already received from Dr. Whitaker's Books, though they have been o... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Dunham Whitaker | History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'In passing through Penrith I had an opportunity of seeing his [Francis Jeffrey's]... | William Wordsworth | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your quondam Friend's, Dr. Symmonds' life of Milton, on some futu... | William Wordsworth | Symmonds | Life of John Milton, The | Print: Book |
| 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 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your sermon [Human Laws best supported by the Gospel] (which I la... | William Wordsworth | Francis Wrangham | Human Laws best supported by the Gospel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'Thank you for Marmion which I have read with lively pleasure ... ' | William Wordsworth | Walter Scott | Marmion | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'I had a peep at your edition of Dryden - I had not time to read the Notes which w... | William Wordsworth | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Since I wrote to you I have read Dr Bell's Book upon Education ... it is a mo... | William Wordsworth | Andrew Bell | Experiment in Education made at the Asylum of Madras, An | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I remember reading White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn[e] with great pleasure when a Boy at school ...' | William Wordsworth | Gilbert White | Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... I have lately read Dr. Whitaker's history of ... Whalley both with profit and pleasure.' | William Wordsworth | Thomas Dunham Whitaker | History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honour of Clitheroe, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth suggests to Francis Wrangham that he attempt to write a local history: 'I am induced to mention it ... | William Wordsworth | Grave | The History and Antiquities of Cleveland in the North Riding of Yorkshire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '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... | William Wordsworth | unknown | [newpapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 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 | 'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe;... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been reading an old Magazine where I find that Benjamin Flower was fined ?100 and imprisoned in Newgate f... | William Wordsworth | unknown | [magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Three of W[ordsworth]'s translations of Catullus survive from between 1786 and c.1788 ["Death of a Starling" (1786); ... | William Wordsworth | Catullus | Carmina | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] copied a brief quotation from Donne's "Death be not proud" into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ["Death be not pr... | William Wordsworth | John Donne | Holy Sonnet 10 | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In spring 1789 W[ordsworth]translated Horace's Ode to Apollo (Ode I xxxi) with the help of [Christopher] Smart's tran... | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth]'s translation of Horace's Ode to the Bandusian Fountain (Ode III xiii) appears in a manuscript dating fr... | William Wordsworth | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A 28-line transcription in Wordsworth's hand appears in the Alfoxden Notebook (Dove Cottage MS 14) of a quotation fro... | William Wordsworth | Richard Payne Knight | Progress of Civil Society, A Didactic Poem, The | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mary Moorman, "Wordsworth's Commonplace Book," Notes & Queries NS 4 (1957) 400-5, reports that the commonplace book u... | William Wordsworth | David Herd | Ancient and Modern Scottish Poems | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ... ' | William Wordsworth | Robert Heron | Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Countries of Scotland | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] read Holcroft's play shortly after publication ... on 21 March 1796 [he] told [William] Mathews that "I ... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Holcroft | Man of Ten Thousand, The | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham ... | William Wordsworth | Juvenal | Satire X | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'During the spring or summer of 1789, W[ordsworth] translated Moschus' Lament for Bion [Idyllium III] ... ' | William Wordsworth | Moschus | Lament for Bion | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] read (in [John] Langhorne's translation) Bion's death of Adonis by 1786 ... ' | William Wordsworth | Bion | Death of Adonis | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] composed a loose translation of Petrarch, Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento in 1789-90 while learning I... | William Wordsworth | Petrarch | Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento (sonnet) | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the facing verso of the MS [of Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff], [Wordsworth] ... copies out Athalie I.ii.278-82,... | William Wordsworth | Jean Racine | Athalie | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Thomas Moore on encountering W[ordsworth] in Paris on 24 Oct. 1820: 'A young Frenchman called in, and it was amusing t... | William Wordsworth | Jean Racine | Athalie | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] recalled that W[ordsworth] read [George Sandys, Relation of a Journey Beg... | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As W[ordsworth] recalled in the Fenwick Note to We are Seven ... his reading of Shelvocke's Voyages inspired the kill... | William Wordsworth | George Shelvocke | Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea, Performed in the Years 1719-1722 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two mor... | William Wordsworth | Charlotte Smith | [sonnets (two)] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In later years, W[ordsworth] recalled that under Agostino Isola "I translated the Vision of Mirza, and two or three o... | William Wordsworth | | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the inside cover of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 2, in use during 1786-7, a faint pencil inscription survives from c.1786: ... | William Wordsworth | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' ... as a student at Cambridge, W[ordsworth] made a number of translations from Virgil's Georgics .. surviving manusc... | William Wordsworth | Virgil | Georgics | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Version of Wordsworth's translation of Michaelangelo sonnet transcribed in letter to Sir George Beaumont, 8 Sept 1806. | William Wordsworth | Michaelangelo Buonarotti | [sonnet] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 |
William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 180... | William Wordsworth | anon [working people] | ["half-penny Ballads"] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 1808:... | William Wordsworth | | ["penny and two-penny histories"] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to S.T. Coleridge, [5 May 1809]: 'Turning over an old Magazine three or four days ago I hit upon a ... | William Wordsworth | unknown | [magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 writes to Catherine Clarkson (12 November 1810) with description of three nights' stay during Octob... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Captain Charles Pasley, 28 March 1811: 'Now for your book. I had expected it with great impatie... | William Wordsworth | Captain Charles Pasley | An Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account ... | William Wordsworth | | ['a little poem upon the comet'] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account ... | William Wordsworth | | Courier, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, ['Early Spring 1812']: 'I see no new books except by the merest accident ... T... | William Wordsworth | | [travel books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu:... | William Wordsworth | Miguel Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 May 1814: 'I have to thank you for a Present of your Volume of Poems, received ... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Rogers | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814:
'I have to thank you ... for Egbert, which is pleasingly and v... | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Egbert, or, The Suicide | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814:
'I have peeped into the Ruminator, and turned to your first le... | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Ruminator, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814:
'Your longer poem I have barely looked into ... ' | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Childe Alarique, a poet's reverie with other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814:
'I thank you for the Queen's Wake; since I saw you in Edinburg... | William Wordsworth | James Hogg | Queen's Wake, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'When your Letter arrived I was in the act of reading to Mrs W[... | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Exile, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have read the Ruminator, and I fear that I do not like it qu... | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | The Ruminator | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'Mr. Hogg's Badlew (I suppose it to be his) I could not get thr... | William Wordsworth | J. H. | Hunting of Badlew, a Dramatic Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have seen a book advertised under your name, which I suppose... | William Wordsworth | | | Print: Advertisement, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 14 February 1814, 'Have you read Lucien B[onaparte]' s Epic? I attempted it, but... | William Wordsworth | Lucien Bonaparte | Charlemagne, ou L'Eglise Sauvee, poeme epique en 24 chants | 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: 'It is 11 o'clock. William has been reading the Fairy Queen -... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | Fairy Queen, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and f... | William Wordsworth | Christopher Wordsworth | sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'Buonaparte seems quite to have put the Corn Laws out of our hea... | William Wordsworth | | [information about the Corn Laws] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 25 April 1815: 'You mentioned Guy Mannering in your last. I have read it. I can... | William Wordsworth | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to John Scott, 14 May 1815: 'Amid the hurry consequent upon a recent arrival, with a view to a shor... | William Wordsworth | John Scott | Visit to Paris in 1814 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to B. R. Haydon, 21 December 1815: 'Have you read the works of the Abbe [Johann Joachim] Winkelman ... | William Wordsworth | Johann Joachim Winkelman | Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture, in a series of Letters' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to John Scott, 25 February 1816, on own and contemporaries' endeavours to celebrate victory at Wate... | William Wordsworth | Robert Southey | [Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo, The] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: 'We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of ex... | 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 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies (postmarked 9 April 1816): 'Your obliging Present [new book of poems] reached me y... | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Illustrations of a Poetical Character, in six Tales, with other Poems | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to John Scott: "I have read your late Champions with much pleasure" | William Wordsworth | | The Champion | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies: " ... your poem [Rinaldo] I have read with considerable attention." | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Rinaldo, a desultory Poem | Unknown |
| | 'I have read your Poem. I like it better than any of the preceding ones.' | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Oswald, A Metrical Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wiliam Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 22 June 1817: 'By the bye, it was not till this morning that I read the case of St... | William Wordsworth | | case of Stuart versus Lovell | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wiliam Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 19 [Sept] 1817: 'I have not read Mr. Coleridge's "Biographia", having contented my... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Taylor | Coleridge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 13 Feb 1818:
'I dined at the Wakefields yesterday. Mr John W. senior broke out ... | William Wordsworth | Lord Lonsdale | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Transcribed in letter from William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c.25 February 1818]:
'If money I lack
The shir... | William Wordsworth | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly ... | William Wordsworth | | Kendal Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly ... | William Wordsworth | | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [27 March 1818]:
'I should at this moment determine to go over to Lowther to... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 6 April 1818: 'Had the Correspondence [between Henry Brougham and William Wilberf... | William Wordsworth | Thomas De Quincey | Close Comments on a Straggling Speech | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 22 September 1818: 'Your two interesting Letters, the Pamphlet, and Sun and Ch... | William Wordsworth | Henry Brougham | A Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly upon the Abuse of Charities | |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 8 December 1818: 'I have seen Mr Fleming, and told him everything you wished .... | William Wordsworth | Viscount Lowther | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I know little of Blackwood's Magazine, and wish to know les... | William Wordsworth | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819:
'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of V... | William Wordsworth | Francis Wrangham | translation of Virgil, Eclogues | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819:
'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of V... | William Wordsworth | Virgil | Eclogues | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 7 April 1819: 'Having occasion to go to Sockbridge along with our Rector, Mr Jack... | William Wordsworth | | [List of Applicants for Enfranchisement] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 22 May [1819]: 'I have deferred thanking your Lordship for your kind attention in... | William Wordsworth | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'On looking over Mr Lumb's list of new freeholders in this neighbou... | William Wordsworth | | [list of new freeholders] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'I have seen the Article in the E[dinburgh]. R[eview]. [re Charitie... | William Wordsworth | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Hans Busk, 6 July 1819: 'Dear Sir, Your writings are not to be hurried over; this must plead my ... | William Wordsworth | Hans Busk | Vestriad, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. ... | William Wordsworth | | Guardian, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. ... | William Wordsworth | | advertisements | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misr... | William Wordsworth | [A Westmorland Inhabitant and Freeholder] Anon | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misr... | William Wordsworth | | Kendal Chronicle, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth (visiting Paris) to Helen Maria Williams, [15 October 1820], 'I had the honour of receiving your le... | William Wordsworth | Helen Maria Williams | The Charter; addressed to my nephew Athanase C. L. Coquerel, on his wedding day, 1819 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820, on her nephew William's academic progress: '...he seems yet... | William Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Copied by William Wordsworth into letter to Lady Beaumont, 12 March 1805:
'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues... | William Wordsworth | Aristotle | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short ext... | William Wordsworth | Robert Bloomfield | Farmer's Boy, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Samuel] Rogers reported W[ordsworth]'s reaction to Brougham's harsh review of Byron's first volume: "Wordsworth was ... | William Wordsworth | Henry Brougham | review of Byron, Hours of Idleness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Henry Crabb Robinson on Wordsworth's reading of Henry Brougham's review of Byron, Hours of Idleness: 'I was sitting wi... | William Wordsworth | Henry Brougham | review of Byron, Hours of Idleness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] copied a set of extracts from Buchanan into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ... pro... | William Wordsworth | John Lanne Buchanan | Travels in the Western Hebrides, 1782 to 1790 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some o... | William Wordsworth | Dr Currie | Life of Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some o... | William Wordsworth | Robert Burns | letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord... | William Wordsworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped... | William Wordsworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Rogers | Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] translated ten epitaphs from Chiabrera's Opere ... probably ...between 26 Oct. and 4 Nov. 1809.' | William Wordsworth | Gabriello Chiabrera | Delle Opere di Gabriello Chiabrera | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] seems to have translated ... [John Clanvowe, Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale] on 7 and 8 Dec. 1801, a... | William Wordsworth | John Clanvowe | Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordswort... | William Wordsworth | | [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 ...] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | " ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordswort... | William Wordsworth | 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 ... | |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a ti... | William Wordsworth | Sneyd Davies | Against Indolence. An Epistle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a ti... | William Wordsworth | William Enfield | Speaker, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth copied quotations from Descartes into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31, leaves 71-2, c. Feb 1801.' | William Wordsworth | Rene Descartes | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the recto of a fragment of W[ordsworth]'s Prospectus to The Recluse [Dove Cottage MS 24], there appear the followi... | William Wordsworth | Michael Drayton | Elegy to my dearly loved Friend, Henry Reynolds, Esq. of Poets and Poesy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... ' | William Wordsworth | Maria Edgeworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | De Quincey to Southey, 31 May 1811: 'We received the Gazette last night, and were a little disappointed by it,: Wordsw... | William Wordsworth | | Gazette, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Lamb to Mrs Morgan and Charlotte Brant, 22 May 1815:
'Godwin has just published a new book ... Wordsworth has ju... | William Wordsworth | William Godwin | Lives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupils of Milton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] copied out seven lines of Grahame's poem [Birds of Scotland] in a letter to Lady Beaumont of Dec. 1806, ... | William Wordsworth | James Grahame | Birds of Scotland | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Wordsworth's] first mention of ... [Francis Jeffrey, review of Robert Southey, Thalaba, in the Edinburgh Review 1 (O... | William Wordsworth | Francis Jeffrey | review of Thalaba | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth to Walter Savage Landor, 20 April 1822: 'In your Simoneida, which I saw some years ago at Mr Southey's, I w... | William Wordsworth | Walter Savage Landor | Simoneida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'De Quincey recalled the time ... when he persuaded W[ordsworth] to read [Harriet] Lee's The German's Tale:
'This mo... | William Wordsworth | Harriet Lee | German's Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth to Hazlitt, 5 March 1804: "I was sorry to see from the Papers that your Friend poor Fawcett was dead; not s... | William Wordsworth | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Bo... | William Wordsworth | Willam Blake | [lyrics] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Prelude MS W [Dove Cottage MS 38)] contains a transcription of Marvell's Horatian Ode dating from late 1802.' | William Wordsworth | Andrew Marvell | Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, An | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] was reading Michaelangelo's sonnets with a view to translating them from Dec 1804; his work on them proc... | William Wordsworth | Michaelangelo | [sonnets] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Para... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Recorded in Joseph Farington's diary, '[On 21 May] Sir George [Beaumont] mentioned the high encomiums for Wordsworth's... | William Wordsworth | anon | Eclectic Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the Fenwick Note to The Pet-lamb, W[ordsworth] recalled: "Within a few months after the publication of this poem, ... | William Wordsworth | Lindley Murray | Introduction to the English Reader | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont:
"'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very ... | William Wordsworth | Sir Joshua Reynolds | The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont:
"'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very ... | William Wordsworth | Sir Joshua Reynolds | Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "On 5 Jan 1806 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont;
"'My Brother chanced to meet with Richardson's letters at... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Richardson | The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mark L.] Reed reports that W[ordsworth] copied quotations from Sennertus into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31 ... c.Feb.1801.... | William Wordsworth | Daniel Sennertus | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby:
"I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir wi... | William Wordsworth | William Sotheby | I knew a gentle maid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby:
"I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir wi... | William Wordsworth | William Sotheby | I knew a gentle maid | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby:
"I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir wi... | William Wordsworth | Alaric Watts | Souvenir | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 13 May 1812 [Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded in his diary: "William Wordsworth was more afraid of the liberal than ... | William Wordsworth | Jeremy Taylor | Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, A | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] copied from ... [Thomas Wilkinson's MS "Tours of the British Mountains"] the passage which had inspired ... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Wilkinson | Tours to the British Mountains | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 13 May 1812, [Henry Crabb] Robinson asked W[ordsworth] about [John] Wilson's recently-published volume, The Isle o... | William Wordsworth | John Wilson | [MS poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant an... | William Wordsworth | Francis Wrangham | [poem] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant an... | William Wordsworth | Various | Annual Anthology | Print: Book |
| 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, 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 16 November 1801: '... [William] is now, at 7 o'clock, reading Spenser.' | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'After tea Wm. read Spenser, now and then a little al... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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, Wednesday 27 January, 1802: 'When we returned from Frank [Baty]'s, Wm. wasted h... | William Wordsworth | | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: 'Darkish when we reached home [from walk] ... Willia... | William Wordsworth | Bishop Joseph Hall | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner W... | William Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'William was reading in Ben Jonson -- he read me a beauti... | William Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a litt... | William Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'He [William Wordsworth] is now reading Ben Jonson ... I... | William Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sa... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | William Wordsworth | Charlotte Smith | Elegiac Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's co... | William Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my ... | William Wordsworth | Jane Austen | unknown | 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 | Edmund Spenser | unknown | 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 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and S... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | uncollected poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and S... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | National Lyrics and Songs for Music | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and S... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | "Pilgrim's Song to the Evening Star" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he wa... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | Scenes and Hymns of Life &c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he wa... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | "Elysium" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 October 1842:
'I had the gratification of receiving a good while ago, t... | William Wordsworth | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ask [Mrs Davy] to let you see Miss Wordsworth's MS. account of the two poor Greens who were lost in the snow. Wordswo... | William Wordsworth | Dorothy Wordsworth | [MS narrative] | 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 | '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 |