In 1802, Lowther's heir, William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, paid the ₤ 4, 000 debt owed to Wordsworth's father incurred through Lowther's failure to pay his aide.

He was fond of poetry, with his favourite poet being John Keats, although his favourite poems were William Wordsworth's " Ode to Duty " and Robert Browning's " A Grammarian's Funeral ".

Often anthologised, " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud " is commonly seen as a classic of English romanticism within poetry, although Poems in Two Volumes was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries.

* In William Wordsworth's poem " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ", Wordsworth writes about a walk on the beach with his daughter Caroline, who lived in France with her mother and whom he saw only rarely.

Although Hawkshead was Wordsworth's first serious experience with education, he had been taught to read by his mother and had attended a tiny school of low quality in Cockermouth.

In 1850, on Wordsworth's death, Rogers was asked to succeed him as poet laureate, but declined the honour on account of his age.

Other books by him which indicate his interests in literature include: Robert Southey ( in the " English Men of Letters " series, 1880 ), his edition of Southey's Correspondence with Caroline Bowles ( 1881 ), and Select Poems of Southey ( 1895 ), his Correspondence of Sir Henry Taylor ( 1888 ), his edition of Wordsworth's Poetical Works ( 1892 ) and of his Lyrical Ballads ( 1890 ), his French Revolution and English Literature ( 1897 ; lectures given at Princeton University in 1896 ), History of French Literature ( 1897 ), Puritan and Anglican ( 1900 ), Robert Browning ( 1904 ) and Michel de Montaigne ( 1905 ).

According to Monique R. Morgan's " Narrative Means to Lyric Ends in Wordsworth's Prelude ," " Much of the poem consists of Wordsworth ’ s interactions with nature that ' assure him of his poetic mission.

A house at Bishop Wordsworth's School is named for him.

A house at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury is named for him.

William Wordsworth's poetry described the wonder of the natural world, which had formerly been viewed as a threatening place.

" The year 1793 saw Wordsworth's first published poetry with the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.

In poetry, William Wordsworth's sonnet On Westminster Bridge closes with the lines:

Here, Coleridge opposes imitation to copying, the latter referring to William Wordsworth's notion that poetry should duplicate nature by capturing actual speech.

The most convincing possibility is William Wordsworth, since the poem is framed with direct quotations from Wordsworth's poetry, and Shelley had a deeply ambivalent reaction to Wordsworth's poetry, as witnessed in his sonnet " To Wordsworth.

The imagination, as it appears in many of Coleridge's and Wordsworth's works, including Kubla Khan, is discussed through the metaphor of water, and the use of the river in Kubla Khan is connected to the use of the stream in Wordsworth's The Prelude.

He had several other publications that year besides Pericles, including " Letter from a Conservative ", " A Satire on Satirists " which included a criticism of Wordsworth's failure to appreciate Southey, Alabiadas the Young Man, and " Terry Hogan ", a satire on Irish priests.

The King Mob group allegedly planned a series of audacious actions, including blowing up a waterfall in England's Lake District, painting the poet Wordsworth's house with the words " Coleridge Lives ", and hanging peacocks in London's Holland Park.

Poems in Two Volumes was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries, including Lord Byron whom Wordsworth came to despise.

This is in part a parody of William Wordsworth's sonnet London, 1802, the opening line of which was " Milton!

The elder son, John ( 1843 – 1911 ), was Bishop of Salisbury, founder of Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, and author of Fragments of Early Latin ( 1874 ); the eldest daughter, Elizabeth ( 1840 – 1932 ), was the founder ( in 1878 ) of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and its first principal in 1879.

While it had long been supposed that Wordsworth relied chiefly on Coleridge for philosophical guidance, more recent scholarship has suggested that Wordsworth's ideas may have been formed years before he and Coleridge became friends in the mid 1790s.

The Prospectus contains some of Wordsworth's most famous lines on the relation between the human mind and nature:

* Extensive Information on Wordsworth's Poem, Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

According to William Wordsworth, the poem was inspired while Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy were on a walking tour through the Quantock Hills in Somerset in the spring of 1798.

His first introduction to the saint Ramakrishna occurred in a literature class in General Assembly's Institution, when he heard Hastie lecturing on William Wordsworth's poem The Excursion.

Upon Wordsworth's death it was proposed that a celandine be carved on his memorial plaque inside the church of Saint Oswald at Grasmere, but unfortunately the Greater celandine Chelidonium majus was mistakenly used.

He went for a tour in Greece in 1832-1833, and published various works on its topography and archaeology, the most famous of which is " Wordsworth's " Greece ( 1839 ).

Intended as the introduction to the more philosophical Recluse, which Wordsworth never finished, The Prelude is an extremely personal and revealing work on the details of Wordsworth's life.

The work is a poetic reflection on Wordsworth's own sense of his poetic vocation as it developed over the course of his life.

Written at some time between 1804 and 1807 ( in 1804 on Wordsworth's own account ), it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes, and a revised version was published in 1815.

Wordsworth's Influence on Shelley: A Study of Poetic Authority.

Guided tours of the cottage include a commentary on Wordsworth's life, and visitors are told a selection of anecdotes which bring the experience to life.

His autobiographical tracts are Observations of some Specialities of Divine Providence in the Life of Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, Written with his own hand, and his Hard Measure, reprinted in Christopher Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography.

A similar story of a young girl transformed into a white deer can be found in Yorkshire, where it formed the basis for Wordsworth's poem The White Deer of Rylstone.

Examples of such usage are William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and William Wordsworth's The Idiot Boy.

The first written record of the poem is in Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal, October 1798.

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times.

The volume gave neither Wordsworth's nor Coleridge's name as author.

The source of Wordsworth's philosophical allegiances as articulated in The Prelude and in such shorter works as " Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey " has been the source of much critical debate.

By the time of their association, Stewart had published an ambitious work of original materialist philosophy entitled The Apocalypse of Nature ( London, 1791 ), to which many of Wordsworth's philosophical sentiments are likely indebted.

Tewari, One Interior Life — A Study of the Nature of Wordsworth's Poetic Experience, ( New Delhi: S. Chand & Company Ltd, 1983 )

A fifth was created in the 19th century to allow access to Bishop Wordsworth's School located inside the Cathedral Close.

Salisbury also includes the only two grammar schools in Wiltshire: South Wilts Grammar School for Girls and Bishop Wordsworth's School, which is for boys.

However, Wordsworth's hatred of the panorama was not limited to its deceit.

Wordsworth's biggest problem with panoramas was their pretense: the panorama lulled spectators into stupors, inhibiting their ability to imagine things for themselves.

* The myth of Philoctetes is the inspiration for William Wordsworth's sonnet " When Philoctetes in the Lemnian Isle ," though here the thematic focus is not the Greek warrior's magical bow or gruesome injury, but his abandonment.

Fiennes was briefly educated in the Republic of Ireland and then at Swan School For Boys ( now known as Leehurst Swan School, following a merger with another school ), an independent school in Salisbury, before passing his 11 + exam and continuing to Bishop Wordsworth's School, a voluntary-aided state day grammar school, in the Cathedral Close of the city.

* In chapter five, after bemoaning the fact that people do not appreciate landscape paintings anymore, Mr. Eager misquotes William Wordsworth's poem title ," The World Is Too Much With Us ", saying " The world is too much for us.