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1450-1945

Listing for Reader: William Wordsworth

 

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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 AnthologyPrint: 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 RegisterPrint: 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 BeattieMinstrel, ThePrint: 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 BeddoesDomiciliary VersesPrint: 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 BellBell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive PoetryPrint: 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 BiblePrint: 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 BowlesFourteen SonnetsPrint: 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 SavedraDon QuixotePrint: 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 SageHistoire de Gil Blas de SantillanePrint: 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 FieldingPrint: 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 SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: 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 SwiftA Tale of a TubPrint: 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 CollinsAn Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of ScotlandPrint: 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 EuclidElements I-IV, VIPrint: 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 FoxeActs and Monuments of Matters Most Special and MemorablePrint: 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 MagazinePrint: 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 GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning Political JusticePrint: 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 GoetheManuscript: 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 HentznerA Journey into EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849"in spring 1800 ... [Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ..."William Wordsworth Robert HeronObservations Made in a Journey through the Western Countries of ScotlandPrint: 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 NewtonOpticksPrint: 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 OvidMetamorphosesPrint: 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 PlinyEpistolarumPrint: 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 RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: 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 RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth] owned and read the French translation of Coxe during his residence in France, 1791-2."William Wordsworth William CoxeLettres 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 traducteurPrint: Book
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"In 1843, W[ordsworth] recalled his research for The Borderers: ' ... having a wish to colour the manners in some degr...William Wordsworth George RedpathThe Border History of England and ScotlandPrint: 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 SoutheyJoan of ArcManuscript: 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 SterneTristram ShandyPrint: 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, ThePrint: 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, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"My Brother has read Mr Price's Book on the picturesque ... "William Wordsworth Uvedale PriceEssay on the PicturesquePrint: 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 ClarksonPortraiture 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
1800-1849William 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 MiltonParadise LostPrint: 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 HutchinsonMemoirs of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: 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 ClarksonHistory of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, TheManuscript: 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 WhitakerHistory and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'In passing through Penrith I had an opportunity of seeing his [Francis Jeffrey's]...William Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your quondam Friend's, Dr. Symmonds' life of Milton, on some futu...William Wordsworth SymmondsLife of John Milton, ThePrint: 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 WordsworthWhite Doe of Rylstone, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your sermon [Human Laws best supported by the Gospel] (which I la...William Wordsworth Francis WranghamHuman Laws best supported by the GospelUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'Thank you for Marmion which I have read with lively pleasure ... 'William Wordsworth Walter ScottMarmionUnknown
1800-1849William 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 DrydenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849William 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 BellExperiment in Education made at the Asylum of Madras, AnPrint: 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 WhiteNatural History and Antiquities of SelbornePrint: Book
1800-1849' ... I have lately read Dr. Whitaker's history of ... Whalley both with profit and pleasure.'William Wordsworth Thomas Dunham WhitakerHistory of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honour of Clitheroe, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth suggests to Francis Wrangham that he attempt to write a local history: 'I am induced to mention it ...William Wordsworth GraveThe History and Antiquities of Cleveland in the North Riding of YorkshirePrint: 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 WordsworthWhite Doe of Rylstone, ThePrint: 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 ColeridgeChristabelUnknown
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 CatullusCarminaUnknown
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 DonneHoly Sonnet 10Unknown
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 HoraceWorks 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 SmartPrint: 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 HoraceOdesPrint: 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 KnightProgress of Civil Society, A Didactic Poem, TheUnknown
1700-1799'Mary Moorman, "Wordsworth's Commonplace Book," Notes & Queries NS 4 (1957) 400-5, reports that the commonplace book u...William Wordsworth David HerdAncient and Modern Scottish PoemsPrint: BookUnknown
1700-1799'[Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ... 'William Wordsworth Robert HeronObservations Made in a Journey through the Western Countries of ScotlandPrint: 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 HolcroftMan of Ten Thousand, ThePrint: BookUnknown
1700-1799Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham ...William Wordsworth JuvenalSatire XUnknown
1700-1799'During the spring or summer of 1789, W[ordsworth] translated Moschus' Lament for Bion [Idyllium III] ... 'William Wordsworth MoschusLament for BionUnknown
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] read (in [John] Langhorne's translation) Bion's death of Adonis by 1786 ... 'William Wordsworth BionDeath of AdonisUnknown
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 PetrarchSe 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 RacineAthalieUnknown
1700-1799Thomas Moore on encountering W[ordsworth] in Paris on 24 Oct. 1820: 'A young Frenchman called in, and it was amusing t...William Wordsworth Jean RacineAthalieUnknown
1700-1799'[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] recalled that W[ordsworth] read [George Sandys, Relation of a Journey Beg...William Wordsworth George SandysRelation 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 AdjoyningPrint: 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 ShelvockeVoyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea, Performed in the Years 1719-1722Print: 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, ThePrint: 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 VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799' ... as a student at Cambridge, W[ordsworth] made a number of translations from Virgil's Georgics .. surviving manusc...William Wordsworth VirgilGeorgicsUnknown
1800-1849Version 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
1800-1849William 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
1800-1849William 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
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 'Sunday Night, June 4th [1809]': 'Nothing but vexation seems to attend me in thi...William Wordsworth William WordsworthConvention of Cintra, The
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson (12 November 1810) with description of three nights' stay during Octob...William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Captain Charles Pasley, 28 March 1811: 'Now for your book. I had expected it with great impatie...William Wordsworth Captain Charles PasleyAn Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849William 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
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account ...William Wordsworth Courier, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, ['Early Spring 1812']: 'I see no new books except by the merest accident ... T...William Wordsworth [travel books]Print: Book
1800-1849Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu:...William Wordsworth Miguel CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 May 1814: 'I have to thank you for a Present of your Volume of Poems, received ...William Wordsworth Samuel RogersPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'I have to thank you ... for Egbert, which is pleasingly and v...William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesEgbert, or, The SuicideUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'I have peeped into the Ruminator, and turned to your first le...William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesRuminator, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'Your longer poem I have barely looked into ... 'William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesChilde Alarique, a poet's reverie with other poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849William 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 HoggQueen's Wake, TheUnknown
1800-1849William 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. GilliesExile, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849William 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. GilliesThe RuminatorPrint: Book
1800-1849William 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, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849William 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
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 14 February 1814, 'Have you read Lucien B[onaparte]' s Epic? I attempted it, but...William Wordsworth Lucien BonaparteCharlemagne, ou L'Eglise Sauvee, poeme epique en 24 chantsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs Kn...William Wordsworth William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'It is 11 o'clock. William has been reading the Fairy Queen -...William Wordsworth Edmund SpenserFairy Queen, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and f...William Wordsworth Christopher WordsworthsermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy 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
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 25 April 1815: 'You mentioned Guy Mannering in your last. I have read it. I can...William Wordsworth Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott, 14 May 1815: 'Amid the hurry consequent upon a recent arrival, with a view to a shor...William Wordsworth John ScottVisit to Paris in 1814Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to B. R. Haydon, 21 December 1815: 'Have you read the works of the Abbe [Johann Joachim] Winkelman ...William Wordsworth Johann Joachim WinkelmanReflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture, in a series of Letters'Print: Book
1800-1849William 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
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: 'We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of ex...William Wordsworth Christopher WordsworthA sermon preached in the Chapel of Lambeth at the Consecration of the Hon. and Right Rev. Henry Ryder, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, 1815Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies (postmarked 9 April 1816): 'Your obliging Present [new book of poems] reached me y...William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesIllustrations of a Poetical Character, in six Tales, with other PoemsPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott: "I have read your late Champions with much pleasure"William Wordsworth The ChampionPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies: " ... your poem [Rinaldo] I have read with considerable attention."William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesRinaldo, a desultory PoemUnknown
'I have read your Poem. I like it better than any of the preceding ones.'William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesOswald, A Metrical TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Wiliam 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 LovellUnknown
1800-1849Wiliam Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 19 [Sept] 1817: 'I have not read Mr. Coleridge's "Biographia", having contented my...William Wordsworth Samuel TaylorColeridgePrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 13 Feb 1818: 'I dined at the Wakefields yesterday. Mr John W. senior broke out ...William Wordsworth Lord LonsdaleManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Transcribed in letter from William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c.25 February 1818]: 'If money I lack The shir...William Wordsworth Print: Handbill
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly ...William Wordsworth Kendal ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799William 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
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [27 March 1818]: 'I should at this moment determine to go over to Lowther to...William Wordsworth Thomas ClarksonManuscript: Letter
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 6 April 1818: 'Had the Correspondence [between Henry Brougham and William Wilberf...William Wordsworth Thomas De QuinceyClose Comments on a Straggling SpeechUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 22 September 1818: 'Your two interesting Letters, the Pamphlet, and Sun and Ch...William Wordsworth Henry BroughamA Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly upon the Abuse of Charities
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 8 December 1818: 'I have seen Mr Fleming, and told him everything you wished ....William Wordsworth Viscount LowtherManuscript: Letter
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I know little of Blackwood's Magazine, and wish to know les...William Wordsworth Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of V...William Wordsworth Francis Wranghamtranslation of Virgil, EcloguesUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of V...William Wordsworth VirgilEcloguesUnknown
1800-1849William 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
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 22 May [1819]: 'I have deferred thanking your Lordship for your kind attention in...William Wordsworth Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William 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
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'I have seen the Article in the E[dinburgh]. R[eview]. [re Charitie...William Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Hans Busk, 6 July 1819: 'Dear Sir, Your writings are not to be hurried over; this must plead my ...William Wordsworth Hans BuskVestriad, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. ...William Wordsworth Guardian, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. ...William Wordsworth advertisementsPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misr...William Wordsworth [A Westmorland Inhabitant and Freeholder] AnonunknownPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misr...William Wordsworth Kendal Chronicle, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth (visiting Paris) to Helen Maria Williams, [15 October 1820], 'I had the honour of receiving your le...William Wordsworth Helen Maria WilliamsThe Charter; addressed to my nephew Athanase C. L. Coquerel, on his wedding day, 1819Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820, on her nephew William's academic progress: '...he seems yet...William Wordsworth unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Copied by William Wordsworth into letter to Lady Beaumont, 12 March 1805: 'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues...William Wordsworth AristotleunknownUnknown
1800-1849S. 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 BloomfieldFarmer's Boy, TheUnknown
1800-1849'[Samuel] Rogers reported W[ordsworth]'s reaction to Brougham's harsh review of Byron's first volume: "Wordsworth was ...William Wordsworth Henry Broughamreview of Byron, Hours of IdlenessPrint: 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 Broughamreview of Byron, Hours of IdlenessPrint: 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 BuchananTravels in the Western Hebrides, 1782 to 1790Print: 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 CurrieLife of BurnsPrint: 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 BurnslettersPrint: 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 ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage I and IIPrint: 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 ByronLaraPrint: 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 RogersJacquelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] translated ten epitaphs from Chiabrera's Opere ... probably ...between 26 Oct. and 4 Nov. 1809.'William Wordsworth Gabriello ChiabreraDelle Opere di Gabriello ChiabreraPrint: 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 ClanvoweOf the Cuckowe and the NightingaleUnknown
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 unknownProceedings 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 ...
1800-1849Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a ti...William Wordsworth Sneyd DaviesAgainst Indolence. An EpistlePrint: Book
1800-1849Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a ti...William Wordsworth William EnfieldSpeaker, ThePrint: 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 DescartesunknownUnknown
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 DraytonElegy to my dearly loved Friend, Henry Reynolds, Esq. of Poets and PoesyUnknown
1800-1849'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... 'William Wordsworth Maria EdgeworthunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849De Quincey to Southey, 31 May 1811: 'We received the Gazette last night, and were a little disappointed by it,: Wordsw...William Wordsworth Gazette, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Mary Lamb to Mrs Morgan and Charlotte Brant, 22 May 1815: 'Godwin has just published a new book ... Wordsworth has ju...William Wordsworth William GodwinLives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupils of MiltonPrint: 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 GrahameBirds of ScotlandUnknown
1800-1849'[Wordsworth's] first mention of ... [Francis Jeffrey, review of Robert Southey, Thalaba, in the Edinburgh Review 1 (O...William Wordsworth Francis Jeffreyreview of ThalabaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Wordsworth 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 LandorSimoneidaPrint: 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 LeeGerman's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Wordsworth 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 MarvellHoratian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, AnUnknown
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 MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849Recorded in Joseph Farington's diary, '[On 21 May] Sir George [Beaumont] mentioned the high encomiums for Wordsworth's...William Wordsworth anonEclectic ReviewPrint: 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 MurrayIntroduction to the English ReaderPrint: 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 ReynoldsThe Works of Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint: 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 ReynoldsDiscoursesPrint: 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 RichardsonThe Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscriptsPrint: 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 SennertusunknownUnknown
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 SothebyI knew a gentle maidPrint: 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 SothebyI knew a gentle maidUnknown
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 WattsSouvenirPrint: 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 TaylorDissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, APrint: 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 WilkinsonTours to the British MountainsManuscript: 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 VariousAnnual AnthologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 17 August 1800: 'Wm read us The Seven Sisters on a stone.'William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe Seven SistersUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o...William Wordsworth William WordsworthPeter BellUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o...William Wordsworth William WordsworthTo JoannaUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, a...William Wordsworth William WordsworthTo JoannaUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, a...William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe FirgroveManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 22 October 1800: 'Wm. read after supper, Ruth etc.; Coleridge Christa...William Wordsworth William WordsworthRuthUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 November 1800: 'Wm. somewhat better [having been suffering from pile...William Wordsworth William WordsworthPoint Rash JudgementManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 16 November 1801: '... [William] is now, at 7 o'clock, reading Spenser.'William Wordsworth Edmund SpenserunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'After tea Wm. read Spenser, now and then a little al...William Wordsworth Edmund SpenserunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: '[while Mary Hutchinson walked to Ambleside] I stayed ...William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe PedlarManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'In the afternoon ... I mended Wm.'s stockings while h...William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe PedlarManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 27 January, 1802: 'When we returned from Frank [Baty]'s, Wm. wasted h...William Wordsworth [magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 February, 1802: 'William read parts of his Recluse aloud to me.'William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe RecluseManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 22 February, 1802: ' ... Mr. Simpson came in. Wm. began to read Peter B...William Wordsworth William WordsworthPeter BellManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: 'Darkish when we reached home [from walk] ... Willia...William Wordsworth Bishop Joseph HallunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner W...William Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'William was reading in Ben Jonson -- he read me a beauti...William Wordsworth Ben JonsonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a litt...William Wordsworth Ben JonsonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy 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
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: '... we sate a while ... [in the orchard]. I left ......William Wordsworth William Wordsworth[poem]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 20 March 1802: 'After tea Wm. read The Pedlar.'William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe PedlarManuscript: Sheet
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'He [William Wordsworth] is now reading Ben Jonson ... I...William Wordsworth Ben JonsonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 4 May 1802, describing excursion to local river and waterfall: 'We [Dor...William Wordsworth William WordsworthversesManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sa...William Wordsworth Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy 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 SmithElegiac SonnetsPrint: 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 ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: 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 AustenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ...William Wordsworth Edmund SpenserunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ...William Wordsworth William WordsworthLaodamiaUnknown
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ...William Wordsworth William WordsworthLines. Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, 13th July 1798Unknown
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ...William Wordsworth William WordsworthsonnetsUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and S...William Wordsworth Felicia Hemansuncollected poemsUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and S...William Wordsworth Felicia HemansNational Lyrics and Songs for MusicPrint: Book
1800-1849William 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
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he wa...William Wordsworth Felicia HemansScenes and Hymns of Life &cPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he wa...William Wordsworth Felicia Hemans"Elysium"Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 October 1842: 'I had the gratification of receiving a good while ago, t...William Wordsworth Elizabeth BarrettunknownPrint: 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
1800-1849James 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
1800-1849James 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

 

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