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.

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.

Wordsworth had for years been making plans to write a long philosophical poem in three parts, which he intended to call The Recluse.

The poet William Wordsworth was very fond of the flower and it inspired him to write three poems including the following from his ode to the celandine:

After visiting Clarkson in April 1802, Wordsworth was inspired to write the poem " Daffodils " after seeing daffodils growing on the shores of Ullswater on his journey back to Grasmere.

During this era, William Wordsworth wrote The Conventions of Cintra, praising Spanish and Portuguese resistance to Napoleonic force ; Lord Byron would go on to praise Amazonian women in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, inverting the " polite " norms of femininity that the modern " civilized " world placed on them ; and, finally, Scott would write about similar events in The Visions of Don Roderick.

Somewhat surprisingly, his great friend and mentor, Edward Thomas, likened Davies to Wordsworth, writing: " He can write commonplace or inaccurate English, but it is also natural to him to write, such as Wordsworth wrote, with the clearness, compactness and felicity which make a man think with shame how unworthily, through natural stupidity or uncertainty, he manages his native tongue.

The Lake Poet William Wordsworth paid many visits to the area around Aira Force ; he was probably inspired to write his poem " Daffodils " with the opening line, " I wandered lonely as a cloud " as he observed daffodils growing on the shore of Ullswater near where Aira Beck enters the lake near Glencoyne Bay.

According to family friend Henry Crabb Robinson, Mary was " quite insane " at this time and unable to fully feel grief at the death of her brother, though she recovered so far as to be able to persuade Wordsworth to write lines for her brother's memorial stone.

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 ".

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

During the harsh winter of 1798 – 99, Wordsworth lived with Dorothy in Goslar, and, despite extreme stress and loneliness, he began work on an autobiographical piece later titled The Prelude.

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.

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.

Wordsworth began The Prelude in 1798 at the age of 28 and continued to work on it throughout his life.

Had The Recluse been completed, it would have been approximately three times longer than Paradise Lost ( 33, 000 lines versus 10, 500 ); often, in his letters, Wordsworth commented that he was plagued with agony because he failed to finish the work.

In the 1850 edition, Wordsworth pays tribute to Coleridge in his introduction, saying that the " work addressed to a dear friend, most distinguished for his knowledge and genius, and to whom the author ’ s intellect is deeply indebted.

Critics were rebutted by public opinion, and the work gained in popularity and recognition, as did Wordsworth.

Tighe's work was appreciated by William Wordsworth and also an early influence on John Keats, whose short Ode to Psyche appeared in 1820.

Her influences included the work of Hannah More, William Wordsworth, and William Cowper.

English poet, William Wordsworth, and his work, " Ode: Intimations of Immortality ", was the inspiration for the naming of the event.

His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together.

Between 1835 and 1849, Tait's published a series of De Quincey's reminiscences of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Robert Southey, and other figures among the Lake Poets — a series that taken together constitutes one of his most important works.

Sidney Colvin wrote " For loftiness of thought and language together, there are passages in Gebir that will bear comparison with Milton " and " nowhere in the works of Wordsworth or Coleridge do we find anything resembling Landor's peculiar qualities of haughty splendour and massive concentration ".

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

Nine of Arthur's ghost stories are included in David Stuart Davies ( ed ) The Temple of Death: The Ghost Stories of A. C. & R. H. Benson ( Wordsworth, 2007 ) together with seven by his brother Robert Hugh ( R. H .) Benson, while nine of Arthur's and ten of Robert's are included in Ghosts in the House ( Ash-Tree, 1996 ); the contents of the two joint collections are similar but not identical.

Over 80 % of all original Wordsworth manuscripts are held here, together with around 60, 000 other documents, manuscripts and items of artwork.

The third a cappella musical to appear Off-Broadway, In Transit, premiered 5 October 2010 and was produced by Primary Stages with book, music, and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth.

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.

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

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 ".

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.

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.

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:

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.

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

Along with spending time reading in Cockermouth, Wordsworth would also stay at his mother's parents house in Penrith, Cumberland.

Wordsworth could not get along with his grandparents and his uncle, and his hostile interactions with them distressed him to the point of contemplating suicide.

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.

In November 1791, Wordsworth visited Revolutionary France and became enthralled with the Republican movement.

It was this repayment that afforded Wordswoth the financial means to marry, and on October 4, following his visit with Dorothy to France to arrange matters with Annette, Wordsworth married a childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson.

Following the death of his friend the painter William Green in 1823, Wordsworth mended relations with Coleridge.