hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
Jacopo Di Dante 428 0 Browse Search
Edmund Spenser 291 1 Browse Search
Pietro Di Dante 280 0 Browse Search
John Milton 246 0 Browse Search
David Masson 189 1 Browse Search
William Wordsworth 182 2 Browse Search
Milton (Canada) 104 0 Browse Search
John Wordsworth 94 0 Browse Search
Di Dante 86 0 Browse Search
Beatrice 80 0 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of James Russell Lowell, Among my books. Search the whole document.

Found 597 total hits in 204 results.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...
Anderson (search for this): chapter 3
as a scholar, and if his life had any incidents, they were of that interior kind which rarely appear in biography, though they may be of controlling influence upon the life. He speaks of reading Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton while at Cambridge, Prelude, Book III. He studied Italian also at Cambridge; his teacher, whose name was Isola, had formerly taught the poet Gray. It may be pretty certainly inferred, however, that his first systematic study of English poetry was due to the copy of Anderson's British Poets, left with him by his sailor brother John on setting out for his last voyage in 1805. but no reflection from them is visible in his earliest published poems. The greater part of his vacations was spent in his native Lakecoun-try, where his only sister, Dorothy, was the companion of his rambles. She was a woman of large natural endowments, chiefly of the receptive kind, and had much to do with the formation and tendency of the poet's mind. It was she who called forth the
Klopstock (search for this): chapter 3
eviewers had been in a chorus of laughter or conspiracy of silence behind him. He went quietly over to Germany to write more Lyrical Ballads, and to begin a poem on the growth of his own mind, at a time when there were only two men in the world (himself and Coleridge) who were aware that he had one, or at least one anywise differing from those mechanically uniform ones which are stuck drearily, side by side, in the great pin-paper of society. In Germany Wordsworth dined in company with Klopstock, and after dinner they had a conversation, of which Wordsworth took notes. The respectable old poet, who was passing the evening of his days by the chimney-corner, Darby and Joan like, with his respectable Muse, seems to have been rather bewildered by the apparition of a living genius. The record is of value now chiefly for the insight it gives us into Wordsworth's mind. Among other things he said, that it was the province of a great poet to raise people up to his own level, not to desc
Chaucer (search for this): chapter 3
d in The Prelude. He did not distinguish himself as a scholar, and if his life had any incidents, they were of that interior kind which rarely appear in biography, though they may be of controlling influence upon the life. He speaks of reading Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton while at Cambridge, Prelude, Book III. He studied Italian also at Cambridge; his teacher, whose name was Isola, had formerly taught the poet Gray. It may be pretty certainly inferred, however, that his first systematic ge owes him gratitude for the habitual purity and abstinence of his style, and we who speak it, for having emboldened us to take delight in simple things, and to trust ourselves to our own instincts. And he hath his reward. It needs not to bid Renowned Chaucer lie a thought more nigh To rare Beaumond, and learned Beaumond lie A little nearer Spenser; for there is no fear of crowding in that little society with whom he is now enrolled as fifth in the succession of the great English Poets.
Fox (search for this): chapter 3
lads. The second English edition, however, having been published before he had wholly completed his reprinting, was substantially followed in the first American, which was published in 1802. Wordsworth sent a copy of it, with a manly letter, to Mr. Fox, particularly recommending to his attention the poems Michael and The Brothers, as displaying the strength and permanence among a simple and rural population of those domestic affections which were certain to decay gradually under the influence of manufactories and poor-houses. Mr. Fox wrote a civil acknowledgment, saying that his favorites among the poems were Harry Gill, We are Seven, The Mad Mother, and The Idiot, but that he was prepossessed against the use of blank-verse for simple subjects. Any political significance in the poems he was apparently unable to see. To this second edition Wordsworth prefixed an argumentative Preface, in which he nailed to the door of the cathedral of English song the critical theses which he was
Therese (search for this): chapter 3
orship, and the combined ardors of conviction and conflict lent them a fire that was not naturally their own. As we read them now, that virtue of the moment is gone out of them, and whatever of Dr. Wattsiness there is gives us a slight shock of disenchantment. It is something like the difference between the Marseillaise sung by armed propagandists on the edge of battle, or by Brissotins in the tumbrel, and the words of it read coolly in the closet, or recited with the factitious frenzy of Therese. It was natural in the early days of Wordsworth's career to dwell most fondly on those profounder qualities to appreciate which settled in some sort the measure of a man's right to judge of poetry at all. But now we must admit the shortcomings, the failures, the defects, as no less essential elements in forming a sound judgment as to whether the seer and artist were so united in him as to justify the claim first put in by himself and afterwards maintained by his sect to a place beside the
Mary Hutchinson (search for this): chapter 3
y of her pupils, teaching them chiefly by rote, and not endeavoring to cultivate their reasoning faculties, a process by which children are apt to be converted from natural logicians into impertinent sophists. Among his schoolmates here was Mary Hutchinson, who afterwards became his wife. In 1778 he was sent to a school founded by Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, in the year 1585, at Hawkshead in Lancashire. Hawkshead is a small market-town in the vale of Esthwaite, about a third of a mil appreciation of the best minds and the gratitude of the purest hearts gradually centred more and more towards him. In 1802 he made a short visit to France, in company with Miss Wordsworth, and soon after his return to England was married to Mary Hutchinson, on the 4th of October of the same year. Of the good fortune of this marriage no other proof is needed than the purity and serenity of his poems, and its record is to be sought nowhere else. On the 18th of June, 1803, his first child, Jo
John Wordsworth (search for this): chapter 3
third of a mile northwest of the lake. Here Wordsworth passed nine years, among a people of simple s the Brissotins. As hitherto the life of Wordsworth may be called a fortunate one, not less so ig quite apart from the popular and above it. Wordsworth has been unwisely blamed, as if he had been 805, and referring to a still earlier date. Wordsworth went in powder, and with cocked hat under hiafterwards became a theoretical churchgoer. Wordsworth defended earnestly the Church establishment.un together in retrospection. How far could Wordsworth at fourteen have been acquainted with the potrike us oddly as coming from Wordsworth. Wordsworth's purity afterwards grew sensitive almost ton the spring of 1798) which would imply that Wordsworth had been accused of some kind of social hereo his father's estate had not been paid, and Wordsworth was one of those rare idealists who esteem id only to oblivion. In the autumn of 1795 Wordsworth and his sister took up their abode at Racedo[37 more...]
Ezekiel (search for this): chapter 3
deliberately recorded them there. Of his personal characteristics little is related. He was somewhat above the middle height, but, according to De Quincey, of indifferent figure, the shoulders being narrow and drooping. His finest feature was the eye, which was gray and full of spiritual light. Leigh Hunt says: I never beheld eyes that looked so inspired, so supernatural. They were like fires, half burning, half smouldering, with a sort of acrid fixture of regard. One might imagine Ezekiel or Isaiah to have had such eyes. Southey tells us that he had no sense of smell, and Haydon that he had none of form. The best likeness of him, in De Quincey's judgment, is the portrait of Milton prefixed to Richardson's notes on Paradise Lost. He was active in his habits, composing in the open air, and generally dictating his poems. His daily life was regular, simple, and frugal; his manners were dignified and kindly; and in his letters and recorded conversations it is remarkable how
Paradise Lost (search for this): chapter 3
e was the eye, which was gray and full of spiritual light. Leigh Hunt says: I never beheld eyes that looked so inspired, so supernatural. They were like fires, half burning, half smouldering, with a sort of acrid fixture of regard. One might imagine Ezekiel or Isaiah to have had such eyes. Southey tells us that he had no sense of smell, and Haydon that he had none of form. The best likeness of him, in De Quincey's judgment, is the portrait of Milton prefixed to Richardson's notes on Paradise Lost. He was active in his habits, composing in the open air, and generally dictating his poems. His daily life was regular, simple, and frugal; his manners were dignified and kindly; and in his letters and recorded conversations it is remarkable how little that was personal entered into his judgment of contemporaries. The true rank of Wordsworth among poets is, perhaps, not even yet to be fairly estimated, so hard is it to escape into the quiet hall of judgment uninflamed by the tumult
Germany Wordsworth (search for this): chapter 3
now chiefly for the insight it gives us into Wordsworth's mind. Among other things he said, that it It would be instructive to know what were Wordsworth's studies during his winter in Goslar. De Q edition in 1802, and to a third in 1805. Wordsworth found (as other original minds have since dorently unable to see. To this second edition Wordsworth prefixed an argumentative Preface, in which by the logic and learning of his prose; but Wordsworth carried to the reform of poetry all that fer-founded faith in himself. To this Defensio Wordsworth afterward added a supplement, and the two fo moreover guilty of the same fault for which Wordsworth condemned Dr. Johnson's famous parody on theduring a part of this excursion, of which Miss Wordsworth kept a full diary. In Scotland he made tticularly Byron, among whose verses a bit of Wordsworth showed as incongruously as a sacred vestment. Crabb Robinson is reported as saying that Wordsworth was indignant at the Edinburgh Review's atta[16 more...]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...