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.

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

This early form of democracy was recorded by the philosopher Rousseau, by the poet Wordsworth, by the dramatist Tirso de Molina and by the composer Iparraguirre, who wrote the piece called Gernikako Arbola.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

At Penrith, Wordsworth was exposed to the moors.

Wordsworth was taught both the Bible and the Spectator, but little else.

It was at the school that Wordsworth was to meet the Hutchinsons, including Mary, who would be his future wife.

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.

Her wish was granted at Caroline's marriage in 1816, when Wordsworth settled £ 30 annually on Caroline, a generous allowance (£ 1, 360 purchasing power in year 2000 pounds sterling ) that continued until 1835, when it was replaced by a capital settlement.

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.

Wordsworth attempted to get the play staged in November 1797, but it was rejected by Thomas Harris, theatre manager of Covent Garden, who proclaimed it " impossible that the play should succeed in the representation ".

The rebuff was not received lightly by Wordsworth, and the play was not published until 1842, after substantial revision.

With the death in 1843 of Robert Southey, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate.

The Convention of Cintra is also the name of a pamphlet written by the future British Poet Laureate William Wordsworth in 1808 ; he also wrote a passionate sonnet that, in his own words, was " composed while the author was engaged in writing a tract occasioned by " the Convention, in which he laments the bondage felt by " suffering Spain ".

* Alfred Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ) named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, succeeding William Wordsworth.

* William Wordsworth ( 1770 – 1850 ) becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

He became the friend of Wordsworth, Walter Scott and Byron, and lived long enough to give an opinion as to the fitness of Alfred Tennyson for the post of Poet Laureate.

Poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived at Alfoxton House in Holford between July 1797 and June 1798, during the time of their friendship with Coleridge.

Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge moved to Keswick with his family in 1800 and visited and collaborated with William Wordsworth in nearby Grasmere, frequently walking back and forth between the towns.

He was most recognized for Wordsworth ’ s sonnet, To The Poet, John Dyer, addressed to him, and for Grongar Hill, one of Dyer ’ s six early poems featured in Richard Savage ’ s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands ( February 1726 ), a collection of works featuring ‘ Hillarian ’ circle verse.

Poet Dorothy Wordsworth wrote in 1803 that she and her brother William yearned for the gingerbread.

The late Professor Jonathan Wordsworth in 1994 dubbed her ' The Poet of Friendship ', predicting on BBC Radio Cumbria in 1998 that ‘ Susanna will eventually be seen as important as the other Romantic poets writing during the eighteenth century, and should be more widely read ’.

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.

" Wordsworth as the Prototype of the Poet in Shelley ’ s Alastor.

Poet William Wordsworth was educated in its grammar school, whilst Beatrix Potter lived nearby, marrying William Heelis, a local solicitor in the early 20th century.

Barry Wordsworth, principal conductor from 1989 to 2006, now holds the title of Conductor Laureate.

* Fragments of Ennius ' Annals at The Latin Library ; text from Wordsworth ( 1874 ), line numbering from Warmington ( 1935 )

" 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 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.

Politics of the Business ( 2003 ) is a look at present-day hip hop, again featuring many guests, from Chuck D and Ice-T to the Beatnuts and Wordsworth.

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

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

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

Here, Wordsworth gives his famous definition of poetry as " the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

While in Revolutionary Paris in 1792, the 22-year-old Wordsworth made the acquaintance of the mysterious traveller John " Walking " Stewart ( 1747 – 1822 ), who was nearing the end of a thirty-years ' peregrination from Madras, India, through Persia and Arabia, across Africa and all of Europe, and up through the fledgling United States.

Wordsworth received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in 1838 from Durham University, and the same honour from Oxford University the next year.

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 ...”

::- from The Germans on the Heights of Hochheim ( 1816 ) by William Wordsworth

His Harvard lectures ( 1924 – 37 ) are studded with quotations from his favourite poets, Wordsworth and Shelley.

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 ".

The office fell into some contempt before Southey, but took on a new lustre from his personal distinction and that of Wordsworth and Tennyson.

Wordsworth stipulated, before accepting the honour, that no formal effusions from him should be considered a necessity ; but Tennyson was generally happy in his numerous poems of this class.

A typical sentence from this chapter is " Profs from Oxford show frosh who do post-docs how to gloss works of Wordsworth.

As a poet, Wordsworth sought to separate his craft from the phantasmagoria enveloping the population.

Citations from the Wordsworth Military Library reprint of 1998.

An excerpt from the ' tract ' itself can be found in William Wordsworth: Selected Prose, Penguin Classics 1988 ; the whole may be found in The Prose Works of William Wordsworth through googlebooks.