Mr. Wordsworth on the other hand was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us ...”

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.

Subsequently a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including Robert Adam, Sir Walter Scott ( 1810 ), John Keats ( 1818 ), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth ( 1833 ), Jules Verne ( 1839 ), Alice Liddell ( the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland ) in 1878, David Livingstone ( 1864 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1870 ) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.

Coleridge Cottage was, between 1797 and 1799, the home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in poetry ( along with William Wordsworth, who himself lived three miles away ).

Wordsworth himself wrote ahead to soften the thoughts of The Critical Review, hoping his friend Francis Wrangham would push for a softer approach.

He succeeded in preventing a known enemy from writing the review, but it didn't help ; as Wordsworth himself said, it was a case of " Out of the frying pan, into the fire ".

Wordsworth is concerned mainly with psychological experimentations, using speakers who are very much like himself.

He thought of himself writing in the tradition of Homer, Milton, Spenser, Wordsworth, and others.

Managing the horse and car proved difficult for Wordsworth, who had appointed himself as the driver.

In his " Preface to Lyrical Ballads ", which is called the " manifesto " of English Romantic criticism, Wordsworth calls his poems " experimental.

* William Wordsworth: Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads

In many respects, their criticism echoes what William Wordsworth wrote in Preface to Lyrical Ballads to instigate the Romantic movement in British poetry over a century earlier, criticising the gauche and pompous school which then pervaded, and seeking to bring poetry to the layman.

Similarly, William Wordsworth had said that poetry should come from " emotions recollected in tranquility " ( Preface to Lyrical Ballads, emphasis added ).

In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second ( 1800 ) edition of Lyrical Ballads ( 1798 ).

* William Wordsworth, " Preface to Lyrical Ballads " ( 1802 )

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

" The actual person from Porlock mentioned could be many people, including Wordsworth, Joseph Cottle, John Thelwall, Coleridge's wife, or merely a literary device.

The Abyssinian maid is derived from many figures in Coleridge's life, including women who Coleridge admired in some way: Charlotte Brent, Catherine Clarkson, Mary Morgan, and Dorothy Wordsworth.

In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Alfoxton House, Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey.

However, when Lyrical Ballads was reprinted, Wordsworth included it despite Coleridge's objections, writing:

The birth of English Romanticism is often dated to the publication in 1798 of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.

* William Wordsworth in " The Female Vagrant ", included in Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

As it turned out, a third edition never emerged and instead Coleridge's next publication was the monumentally influential Lyrical Ballads co-published with Wordsworth.

It is based on the early lives of English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, in particular their collaboration on the " Lyrical Ballads ", and Coleridge's writing of Kubla Khan.

The poem The Convict ( Wordsworth ) was in the 1798 edition but Wordsworth omitted it from the 1800 edition, replacing it with Coleridge's ' Love '.

The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry set the stage not only for Robert Burns, but also for Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.

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 ’.

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.

Together, Wordsworth and Coleridge ( with insights from Dorothy ) produced Lyrical Ballads ( 1798 ), an important work in the English Romantic movement.

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

* 1798: Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

* September 18 – Lyrical Ballads is published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, inaugurating the English Romantic movement in literature.

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.

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.

The Romantic poet William Wordsworth includes an apostrophe to the Wye in his famous poem " Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey " published 1798 in Lyrical Ballads

Wordsworth used the form for many of the Lyrical Ballads ( 1798 and 1800 ), and for his longest efforts, The Prelude and The Excursion.

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.

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.

And like Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Lyrical Ballads of 1798, she wrote amusing vignettes about local people and scenes, though in Cumberland dialect.

It is also taken as his longer-term reaction and comment on William Wordsworth, earlier ( at the time of Lyrical Ballads ) his close collaborator.