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1. Dorothy. 1771--1855, English writer, whose Journals are noted esp for their descriptions of nature 2. her brother, William. 1770--1850, English poet, whose work, celebrating nature, was greatly inspired by the Lake District, in which he spent most of his life. Lyrical Ballads (1798), to which Coleridge contributed, is often taken as the first example of English romantic poetry and includes his Lines Written above Tintern Abbey. Among his other works are The Prelude (completed in 1805; revised thereafter and published posthumously) and Poems in Two Volumes (1807), which includes The Solitary Reaper and Intimations of Immortality Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Matthew Arnold, a disciple of Wordsworth and Goethe, and "the one major Victorian writer of whom it can be said without metaphor that he was nurtured in the Wordsworthian presence" (Gill 174), asks England and Europe to remember his mentor in his celebrated "Memorial Verses" read at Wordsworth's graveside: "Ah The whole Wordsworthian catalogue appears in one place or another in this poem--fears gone by pressing like fears to come, conjurings from fictions, mournful calendars of history, dim admonishments, cycles of obsessive worry, damage wrought upon the self--but largely in a domestic context. Tacitly alluding to Abrams's Natural Supernaturalism (which he had explicitly cited in his 1992 paper), he calls Lilith MacDonald's Wordsworthian "high argument"--"an invented myth based on Christian allegory" (23). |
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