William Wordsworth and John Wilson: A Review of Their Relations between 1802 and 1817

PMLA ◽  
1934 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-183
Author(s):  
Alan Lang Strout
Keyword(s):  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Thomas De Quincey ◽  
Romantic Movement ◽  
Lyrical Ballads ◽  
John Wilson

That two boys of seventeen should have welcomed the most important early book of the romantic movement in England is remarkable, a curiosity of literature. The letters of Thomas De Quincey and John Wilson, in praise of the Lyrical Ballads, probably afforded Wordsworth greater pleasure in 1802 and 1803 than any commendation outside of his immediate circle.

‘Otherwise in London’ or, the ‘Essence of Things’: Modernity and Estrangement in the Nineteenth-Century Cityscape

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Julian Wolfreys
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Thomas De Quincey ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Representation ◽  
Robert Southey ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Writers of the early nineteenth century sought to find new ways of writing about the urban landscape when first confronted with the phenomena of London. The very nature of London's rapid growth, its unprecedented scale, and its mere difference from any other urban centre throughout the world marked it out as demanding a different register in prose and poetry. The condition of writing the city, of inventing a new writing for a new experience is explored by familiar texts of urban representation such as by Thomas De Quincey and William Wordsworth, as well as through less widely read authors such as Sarah Green, Pierce Egan, and Robert Southey, particularly his fictional Letters from England.

Romanticism: Characteristics, Themes and Poets

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 66-74
Author(s):  
Mr Amit
Keyword(s):  
William Wordsworth ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Ludwig Tieck ◽  
Creative Mind ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Lyrical Ballads

This paper examines about Romanticism or Romantic era, themes and some famous writers, poets and poems of romantic era. Romanticism is one of the repetitive topics that are connected to either creative mind, vision, motivation, instinct, or independence. The subject frequently condemns the past, worries upon reasonableness, disconnection of the essayist and pays tribute to nature. Gone before by Enlightenment, Romanticism brought crisp verse as well as extraordinary books in English Literature. Begun from England and spread all through Europe including the United States, the Romantic development incorporates well known journalists, for example, William Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Lord Byron, Shelley, Chatterton, and Hawthorne. ‘Romantic’ has been adjusted from the French word romaunt that implies a story of Chivalry. After two German scholars Schlegel siblings utilized this word for verse, it changed into a development like an epidemic and spread all through Europe. Romanticism in English writing started during the 1790s with the distribution of the Lyrical Ballads of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wordsworth's "Preface" to the subsequent version (1800) of Lyrical Ballads, in which he portrayed verse as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings", turned into the statement of the English Romantic development in verse. The first phase of the Romantic movement in Germany was set apart by advancements in both substance and artistic style and by a distraction with the mysterious, the intuitive and the heavenly. An abundance of abilities, including Friedrich Hölderlin, the early Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jean Paul, Novalis, Ludwig Tieck, A.W. what's more, Friedrich Schlegel, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, and Friedrich Schelling, have a place with this first phase. The second phase of Romanticism, involving the period from around 1805 to the 1830s, was set apart by a reviving of social patriotism and another regard for national roots, as bore witness to by the accumulation and impersonation of local old stories, people songs and verse, society move and music, and even recently disregarded medieval and Renaissance works. The resuscitated recorded  appreciation was converted into creative composition by Sir Walter Scott, who is frequently considered to have imagined the verifiable novel. At about this equivalent time English Romantic verse had arrived at its peak in progress of John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Wordsworth and de Quincey in Westmorland Politics, 1818

PMLA ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 1080-1128 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Edwin Wells
Keyword(s):  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Thomas De Quincey

The following pages communicate certain features of the Westmorland Parliamentary campaign of 1818; the text of two articles by William Wordsworth apparently not hitherto reprinted; a number of facts regarding the publication of Wordsworth's Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmorland; the readings of a broadside printing of a portion of Two Addresses; the variants of the several texts of Two Addresses; the text of a pamphlet by Thomas De Quincey never reprinted, of which but one extant copy has been reported hitherto; the text of eight letters, of which only a few slight extracts have been published, addressed by De Quincey to Wordsworth, dealing with the campaign, revealing his labors on the pamphlet and other political pieces, and applying for the editorship of the Westmorland Gazette; and materials exhibiting more definitely the relations between De Quincey and Wordsworth in the period.

'Lyrical Ballads' and Other Poems, 1797-1800 by William Wordsworth

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bate ◽  
James Butler ◽  
Karen Green ◽  
William Wordsworth
Keyword(s):  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Lyrical Ballads

Not "Forsworn with Pink Ribbons": Hannah More, Thomas De Quincey, and the Literature of Power

2009 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Thomas De Quincey ◽  
Hannah More ◽  
Lyrical Ballads

Abstract De Quincey's conception of the literature of "power" as opposed to that of "knowledge," has proved to be one of the most influential of romantic theories of literature, playing no small part in the canonization of Wordsworth. De Quincey's early acquaintance with the Lyrical Ballads was made through the Evangelical circles of his mother, who was a follower of Hannah More and a member of the Clapham sect. In later years, however, De Quincey repudiated his early Evangelical upbringing and wrote quite scathingly of the literary pretensions of Hannah More. This paper attempts to uncover the revisionary nature of De Quincey's later reminiscences of More and to indicate thereby the covert influence of Evangelical thinking on his literary theorizing. Far from absolving literature of politics, however, colonialist and nationalist imperatives typical of Evangelical thinking may be seen to operate within the spiritualized and aesthetic sphere to which literary power is arrogated by De Quincey.

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