Wordsworth

1 But the ecstatic quietness of Samuel Palmer’s paintings of Shoreham, or Wordsworth’s universal Cumbria, do not sit well with gothic shudders.

2 The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster.

3 Take Wordsworth: it helped, Jackson shows, that he wrote so many different kinds of poems.

4 I received, when I was 20, a slim edition of Wordsworth’s selected poems, as a gift from a young man I loved.

5 She was complicated and fascinating; we used to have these very feisty conversations about Wordsworth.

6 Meditation on memory ... the banks of the Wye, where Wordsworth wrote one of the greatest poems about July.

7 When William Wordsworth visited in 1802 with his sister Dorothy and Samuel Coleridge, he called it simply "the Clyde's most majestic daughter".

8 John Mortimer, in the character of Rumpole, talks about the sadness he felt when he realised that Wordsworth was a better poet than Byron – one of the rites of passage for a bookish teenager.

9 It wasn't exactly tranquility and nature, but I was electrified by it, as Wordsworth claimed his younger, unthinking self had been by rocks and trees.

10 He uses a William Wordsworth poem as his central example — how, for Wordsworth, it is not the past, “but himself in the past imagining the future” that is the irresistible source of emotional return.

11 Edith Wharton, William Wordsworth and Marcel Proust drafted prose and verse from their beds.

12 The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.

13 At times the form echoes Wordsworth’s “The Prelude,” a catalog of experiences that will go on to shape the mature artist’s mind and soul.

14 It was another stroke of fortune that Wordsworth happened to write poems suitable for children; they could be included in textbooks, gaining him new generations of fans.

15 She fills the novel with epigrams, allusions and footnotes from actual texts and literature, ranging from "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Wretched of the Earth" to Wordsworth and nursery rhymes.

16 The Wordsworth Museum in the Lake District still has a collection of eggs made for the poet's children from the 1870s.

17 Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad,” with its “blue remembered hills,” and William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” which couples nostalgia with the harsh reality that the past is irrevocably gone.

18 Wordsworth’s most ambitious work is his autobiographical epic, “The Prelude.”

19 Wordsworth and Coleridge, it is worth remembering, became towering figures of English Romanticism only after a trip to Germany in 1789.

20 Brown’s most intrepid advocate, landscape architect and preservationist John Phibbs, ranks him alongside the poet William Wordsworth and the painter J.M.W.

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