* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

* 1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( d. 1850 )

Similarly in England William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced a collection of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, including Coleridge ’ s ‘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ’.

** The Prelude by William Wordsworth

A literary interest in the popular ballad was not new ; it dates back to Thomas Percy and William Wordsworth.

It is a parody of " Resolution and Independence " by William Wordsworth.

Rousseau's writings had an indirect influence on American literature through the writings of Wordsworth and Kant, whose works were important to the New England Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as on such Unitarians as theologian William Ellery Channing.

These included the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and others prior to their disillusionment with the outbreak of the Reign of Terror.

Initially the medieval Arthurian legends were of particular interest to poets, inspiring, for example, William Wordsworth to write " The Egyptian Maid " ( 1835 ), an allegory of the Holy Grail.

In September 1797, Coleridge lived in Stowey in the south west of England and spent much of his time walking through the nearby Quantock Hills with his fellow poet William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy ; ( His route today is memorialized as the " Coleridge Way ".

There followed the materialist and atheist Jean Meslier, Julien Offroy de La Mettrie, Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d ' Holbach, Denis Diderot, and other French Enlightenment thinkers ; as well as in England, John " Walking " Stewart, whose insistence that all matter is endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth.

In 1835, the English poet William Wordsworth described the Lake District as a The painter George Catlin, in his travels through the American West, wrote during the 1830s that the Native Americans in the United States might be preserved

The Pindarick of Cowley was revived around 1800 by William Wordsworth for one of his very finest poems, the Intimations of Immortality ode ; irregular odes were also written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote odes with regular stanza patterns.

* William Wordsworth

For a time during the 19th century pantheism was the theological viewpoint of many leading writers and philosophers, attracting figures such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge in Britain ; Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Germany ; Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in the USA.

In 1807, William Wordsworth finished his sonnet on the theme of a modernity deadened to Nature, which opens " The world is too much with us ", with a sense of nostalgia for the lost richness of a world numinous with deities:

* 1802 – William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.

The first known sonnets in English, written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, used this Italian scheme, as did sonnets by later English poets including John Milton, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland — part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District.

After the death of their mother, in 1778, John Wordsworth sent William to Hawkshead Grammar School in Lancashire and Dorothy to live with relatives in Yorkshire ; she and William would not meet again for another nine years.

* William " Willy " Wordsworth ( 12 May 1810 – 1883 ).

He repeated his performance of Billy the pageboy for two subsequent tours, and was so successful that he was called to London to play the role alongside William Gillette, the original Holmes.

From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors — including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.

Close by is Rippon Lodge, the oldest house in Prince William County, which is open for tours throughout the summer.

The side, formed by William Donne in 1894 for a tour of the Isle of Wight, had completed five other tours before travelling to France.

Within the program is the Farber Fund, named for storied university professor emeritus Dr. William O. Farber, which provides subsidy to political science and criminal justice majors to attend conferences, participate in study tours, complete internships, and study abroad.

Patty Hearst, a granddaughter of William Randolph, related that as a child, she hid behind statues in the Neptune Pool while tours passed by.

After Hurricane Andrew, Architect William Lane donated his design services to the city and added new stops on design tours in the form of lifeguard towers.

Some of the royal tours undertaken by more junior royals include the 1990 visit of Princess Anne to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings on Anzac Day, and when Prince William represented the Queen of New Zealand at VE and VJ Day commemorations in 2005, as part of an 11 day tour, and opened the new Supreme Court of New Zealand building in early 2010.

Some double-deckers are used solely for sight-seeing tours ; as William Ewart Gladstone observed, "... the way to see London is from the top of a ' bus ".

The diverse range of artists that Chamberlain has contributed his drumming to the tours and albums of include Peter Gabriel, The Wallflowers, Fiona Apple, Sam Phillips, Kanye West, Weapon of Choice, David Torn, Tori Amos, Chris Isaak, Macy Gray, Stevie Nicks, Dave Navarro, Kevin Max, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Stone Gossard, Martina McBride, Garbage, Elton John, Natalie Merchant, Anika Moa, David Bowie, Brad Mehldau, Keith Urban, Liz Phair, John Mayer, Finn Brothers, William Shatner, Jon Brion, Robbie Williams, Shakira, Morrissey, Indigo Girls, Sean Lennon, Sarah McLachlan, Sara Bareilles, Brandi Carlile, Dido, Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Costello, Bruce Hornsby, and Regina Spektor.

It was on one of his temperance lecture tours that he encountered " Buffalo Bill " ( William Cody ).

William ( Billy ) Lloyd Murdoch ( 18 October 1854 – 18 February 1911 ) was an Australian cricketer, who captained the Australian team on tours to England in 1880, 1882 ( when the Ashes legend was born ), 1884 and 1890.

and the lake freighter SS William A. Irvin are moored there, and open for tours.

Associate Artists took on a larger role of shaping the subsidized work in the building and as a result there was tremendous success with Daniel MacIvor's Here Lies Henry and The Soldier Dreams, Sky Gilbert's Ten Ruminations on An Elegy Attributed to William Shakespeare tours to glowing reviews in Great Britain with stops in London, Brighton, and Cardiff.

Highlights of his career include tours with French rock / pop idol Johnny Hallyday in 1976 – 1977 ; concerts with French blues harmonicist Benoît Blue Boy from 1978 to 1980 ; five years of performances with the legendary bluesman Luther Allison, from 1992 until the latter ’ s unfortunate demise in 1997 ; performing with such artists as Sonny Fisher, Gene Summers, Sugar Blue, Freddie King, Memphis Slim, Vince Taylor and Freddie Fingers Lee while they were on tour in France ; and doing session work for such artists as David McNeal, Valerie Legrange, William Sheller, Yves Montand, and many others.

On weekends from May through October, volunteers dressed in Edwardian clothing give living history tours of the Bourn Cottage, the 1890s country estate home of William Bourn, Jr., and the Mineyard, with demonstrations of mine operations.

The first paper on boxing was published in the late 18th century by successful Birmingham boxer ' William Futrell ' who remained undefeated until his one hour and seventeen minute fight at Smitham Bottom, Croydon, on July 9, 1788 against a much younger " Gentleman " John Jackson which was attended by the Prince of Wales.

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

Popular and pioneering film makers included the Bamforths in Yorkshire, William Haggar and his family business in Wales and Frank Mottershaw whose film, A Daring Daylight Robbery, started the chase genre.

William Smith ( geologist ) | William Smith's geologic map of England, Wales, and southern Scotland.

Sir William McKell was Premier of New South Wales.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

Sir Charles FitzRoy ( Governor of New South Wales from 1846 – 1855 ) and Sir William Denison ( Governor of New South Wales from 1855 – 1861 ) also carried the additional title of Governor-General because their jurisdiction extended to other colonies in Australia.

In 1947, Labor appointed a second Australian Governor-General, William McKell, who was in office as the Labor Premier of New South Wales.

In August – September 1905, he founded the Zinc Corporation ( later, following various mergers, to become part of the Rio Tinto Group ) with William Baillieu and others, with the intention to purchase and treat the zinc rich-tailings in Broken Hill, New South Wales.

Harry and William were staying with their father at Balmoral Castle at the time, and the Prince of Wales waited until early the following morning to tell his sons about their mother's death.

The Princess of Wales ' earlier decision to take an infant William to Australia set the precedent for young royal children going on official visits.

Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, Major was appointed a special guardian to Princes William and Harry, with responsibility for legal and administrative matters.

Sydney publican William Tunks accepted the challenge on behalf of New South Wales although the Victorians were criticised for playing for money.

William agreed to invade and issued a declaration which referred to James ' newborn son as the " pretended Prince of Wales ".

Glyndŵr has remained a notable figure in the popular culture of both Wales and England, portrayed in William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 ( anglicised as Owen Glendower ) as a wild and exotic man ruled by magic and emotion (" at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.

In what is now known as the Hopetoun Blunder, the governor-general, Lord Hopetoun, invited Sir William Lyne, the premier of the most populous state, New South Wales, to form a government.

Sir Robert William Askin GCMG, ( 4 April 19079 September 1981 ) was an Australian politician and the 32nd Premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party of Australia.

Robin William Askin was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 4 April 1907 at the Crown Street Women's Hospital, the eldest of three sons of Ellen Laura Halliday ( née Rowe ) and William James Askin, an Adelaide-born sailor and worker for New South Wales Railways.

In November he replaced William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings as Chief Justice of North Wales.

It was enlarged and extended by Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales, the widow of Frederick, Prince of Wales, for whom Sir William Chambers built several garden structures.