da: William Kidd

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

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da: William Somerset Maugham

da: William Morris

da: William af Ockham

da: William Pitt den ældre

da: William Butler Yeats

da: William Seward Burroughs

da: William Gladstone

da: William Congreve

da: William Golding

da: William Makepeace Thackeray

Some of the better-known composers of this time include Dufay, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and William Byrd ; the glories of Renaissance polyphony were choral, sung by choirs of great skill and distinction all over Europe.

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da: William Tecumseh Sherman

da: William Ramsay

In 1728, she rediscovered sets of sketches by Leonardo da Vinci and Hans Holbein that had been hidden in a drawer since the reign of William III.

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He had been preceded by numerous Christian missionaries to the East, such as William of Rubruck, Benedykt Polak, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and Andrew of Longjumeau.

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These include the Franciscan explorers Giovanni da Pian del Carpine in 1245 and William of Rubruck in 1253.

* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

* 1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( d. 1850 )

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 ’.

** The Prelude by William Wordsworth

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

It is a parody of " Resolution and Independence " by William Wordsworth.

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.

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

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 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 ".

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.

In 1835, the English poet William Wordsworth described the Lake District as a The painter George Catlin, in his travels through the American West, wrote during the 1830s that the Native Americans in the United States might be preserved

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.

* William Wordsworth

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.

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:

* 1802 – William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.

The first known sonnets in English, written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, used this Italian scheme, as did sonnets by later English poets including John Milton, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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.

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.

* William " Willy " Wordsworth ( 12 May 1810 – 1883 ).