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.

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.

Wordsworth, as with his siblings, had little involvement with their father, and they would be distant from him until his death in 1783.

The second edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author, and included a preface to the poems, which was augmented significantly in the 1802 edition.

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.

Chapter XIV describes the preparations with Wordsworth for their revolutionary collaboration Lyrical Ballads ( first edition 1798 ), for which Coleridge had contributed the more romantic, Gothic pieces including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

The discussion had turned to a book that Wordsworth was reading, A Voyage Round The World by Way of the Great South Sea ( 1726 ) by Captain George Shelvocke.

It may be noted that abolition had been similarly advocated when Warton and Wordsworth died.

The technique appears in English Romantic poetry, particularly in the poetry of Wordsworth, and was defined in the following way by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his Biographia Literaria: " To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood ; to combine the child ’ s sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar.

His first plan had been to reach William Wordsworth, whose Lyrical Ballads ( 1798 ) had consoled him in fits of depression and had awakened in him a deep reverence for the poet.

His home for ten years was Dove Cottage, which Wordsworth had occupied and which is now a popular tourist attraction.

One of the most important was the disdain heaped upon her by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, poets who in their youthful, radical days had looked to her poetry for inspiration, but in their later, conservative years dismissed her work.

The family had strong literary ties: novelist Elizabeth Gaskell enjoyed her visits to the Procter household, and Procter's father was friends with poet Leigh Hunt, essayist Charles Lamb, and novelist Charles Dickens, as well as being acquainted with poet William Wordsworth and critic William Hazlitt.

In 1838 Wordsworth married Susanna Hartley Frere ( d. 1884 ) and had seven children.

" Hodgson regarded the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as his chief inspirations, and had no academic background, though he was a member of the Metaphysical Society.

When he returned to England, he joined Wordsworth and Southey in denouncing the Convention of Sintra, which had excited general indignation.

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

The Prelude was the product of a lifetime: for the last part of his life, Wordsworth had been " polishing the style and qualifying some of its radical statements about the divine sufficiency of the human mind in its communion with nature ".

Nevertheless Mary Moorman notes that Dorothy was excluded from the poem, even although she had seen the daffodils together with Wordsworth.

It had brought Wordsworth and the other Lake poets into the poetic limelight.

Wordsworth had published nothing new since the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, and a new publication was eagerly awaited.

Wordsworth had, however, gained some financial security by the 1805 publication of the fourth edition of Lyrical Ballads ; it was the first from which he enjoyed the profits of copyright ownership.

Readers in the Victorian era particularly praised her books for their depictions of rural society, for which she drew on her own early experiences, and she shared with Wordsworth the belief that there was much interest and importance in the mundane details of ordinary country lives.

In his 1976 book Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Raymond Williams states in the entry for " Industry ": " The idea of a new social order based on major industrial change was clear in Southey and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1790s and Wordsworth at the turn of the century.

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 1966, Virginia Radley considered Wordsworth and his sister as an important influence to Coleridge writing a great poem: " Almost daily social intercourse with this remarkable brother and sister seemed to provide the catalyst to greatness, for it is during this period that Coleridge conceived his greatest poems, ' Christabel ,' ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,' and ' Kubla Khan ,' poems so distinctive and so different from his others that many generations of readers know Coleridge solely through them.

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.

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:

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.

The sonnet is somewhat reserved but it is plain Wordsworth felt genuine affection for his daughter, as indeed did Mary who was anxious that Wordworth should do more for Caroline should their circumstances improve.

Up to this point Wordsworth was known publicly only for Lyrical Ballads, and he hoped this collection would cement his reputation.

In 1835, Wordsworth gave Annette and Caroline the money they needed for support.

Not long after the conclusion of The Reader, a former editor, Norman Lockyer, decided to create a new scientific journal titled Nature, taking its name from a line by William Wordsworth: " To the solid ground of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye ".

Eric Homberger called him " the saddest heart in the post-war supermarket "— Larkin himself said that deprivation for him was what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

The poet William Wordsworth has long been characterized as an opponent of the panorama, most notably for his allusion to it in Book Seven of The Prelude.

Wordsworth wanted people to see the representation depicted in the panorama and appreciate it for what it was – art.

* " Lines ", abbreviation for " Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey ", a poem by William Wordsworth

The village of Grasmere was named for Grasmere, England, home of poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Through his desire to restore simplicity of diction and emotional sincerity, he did for Welsh poetry what Wordsworth and Coleridge did for English poetry.

Finzi ’ s choral music includes the popular anthems Lo, the full, final sacrifice and God is gone up as well as unaccompanied partsongs, but he also wrote larger-scale choral works such as For St. Cecilia ( text by Edmund Blunden ), Intimations of Immortality ( William Wordsworth ) and the Christmas scene In terra pax ( Robert Bridges and the Gospel of Luke ), all from the last ten years of his life.

* April 15-William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking by Ullswater, see a belt of daffodils which inspire his poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, first written two years later.

The town has links to many notable people: Jonathan Swift, who claimed that an over-fond nurse kidnapped him and brought him to Whitehaven for three years in his infancy ; Mildred Gale, grandmother of George Washington ; and William Wordsworth, who often came into town to visit his family.

Though Wordsworth planned this project when he was in his late 20s, he went to his grave at 80 years old having written to some completion only The Prelude and the second part ( The Excursion ), leaving no more than fragments of the rest.

The poet William Wordsworth, who lived in Grasmere for fourteen years, described it as " the loveliest spot that man hath ever found ".

Aysgarth Falls have attracted visitors for over 200 years ; Ruskin, Turner and Wordsworth visited, all enthusing about the falls ’ outstanding beauty.

After 34 years at Crosthwaite he retired to Grasmere, where, in 1915, he had bought Allan Bank, the house in which William Wordsworth had lived between 1807 and 1813.

The poet William Wordsworth wrote extensively of the Duddon, a river he knew and loved from his early years.