Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-laureate, D.C.L
Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-laureate, D.C.L

Author: Christopher Bp of Linco Wordsworth

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781020791895

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This memoir offers a unique and intimate perspective on the life and work of William Wordsworth, one of the greatest poets of the English language. Written by his nephew, Christopher Wordsworth, who later became the Bishop of Lincoln, this book includes personal anecdotes, correspondence, and reflections on the poet's creative process and cultural significance. This edition also includes a selection of Wordsworth's poems, providing a rich and illuminating portrait of a literary giant. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Poetical Remains
Poetical Remains

Author: Samantha Matthews

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004-06-17

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 019925463X

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In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them. This innovative cultural history, drawing on emerging disciplines of book history and death studies, explores the many strange stories about the deaths of Romantic and Victorian poets, and the 'last words', books, relics, memorials, and objects that survived them.

Those Who Write for Immortality
Those Who Write for Immortality

Author: H. J. Jackson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0300213301

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Great writers of the past whose works we still read and love will be read forever. They will survive the test of time. We remember authors of true genius because their writings are simply the best. Or . . . might there be other reasons that account for an author’s literary fate? This original book takes a fresh look at our beliefs about literary fame by examining how it actually comes about. H. J. Jackson wrestles with entrenched notions about recognizing genius and the test of time by comparing the reputations of a dozen writers of the Romantic period—some famous, some forgotten. Why are we still reading Jane Austen but not Mary Brunton, when readers in their own day sometimes couldn’t tell their works apart? Why Keats and not Barry Cornwall, who came from the same circle of writers and had the same mentor? Why not that mentor, Leigh Hunt, himself? Jackson offers new and unorthodox accounts of the coming-to-fame of some of Britain’s most revered authors and compares their reputations and afterlives with those of their contemporary rivals. What she discovers about trends, champions, institutional power, and writers’ conscious efforts to position themselves for posterity casts fresh light on the actual processes that lead to literary fame.