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Penrith (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 3
John Wordsworth, an attorney-at-law, and agent of Sir James Lowther, afterwards first Earl of Lonsdale. His mother was Anne Cookson, the daughter of a mercer in Penrith. His paternal ancestors had been settled immemorially at Penistone in Yorkshire, whence his grandfather had emigrated to Westmoreland. His mother, a woman of pi, 1783, when William was not quite fourteen years old. The poet's early childhood was passed partly at Cockermouth, and partly with his maternal grandfather at Penrith. His first teacher appears to have been Mrs. Anne Birkett, a kind of Shenstone's Schoolmistress, who practised the memory of her pupils, teaching them chiefly byassionate temperament have escaped these momentary suggestions of despairing helplessness. On another occasion, he says, while I was at my grandfather's house at Penrith, along with my eldest brother Richard, we were whipping tops together in the long drawing-room, on which the carpet was only laid down on particular occasions. T
York (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 3
at Penrith. His first teacher appears to have been Mrs. Anne Birkett, a kind of Shenstone's Schoolmistress, who practised the memory 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 mile northwest of the lake. Here Wordsworth passed nine years, among a people of simple habits and scenery of a sweet and pastoral dignity. His earliest intimacies were with the mountains, lakes, and streams of his native district, and the associations with which his mind was stored during its most impressible period were noble and pure. The boys were boarded among
France (France) (search for this): chapter 3
holy orders under the plea that he was not of age for ordination, went over to France in November, and remained during the winter at Orleans. Here he became intimato in the training and expansion of his faculties was this period of his stay in France. Born and reared in a country where the homely and familiar nestles confidinglside histories and tragedies, for which the hamlet supplied an ample stage. In France he first felt the authentic beat of a nation's heart; he was a spectator at onevibrated by the orgasm of a national emotion. He sympathized with the hopes of France and of mankind deeply, as was fitting in a young man and a poet; and if his faiof view (if change there was) certainly was complete soon after his return from France, and was perhaps due in part to the influence of Burke. While he [Burke] fors 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 marr
Minden (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (search for this): chapter 3
that beating breasts inspire To throw the sultry ray of young Desire; Those lips whose tides of fragrance come and go Accordant to the cheek's unquiet glow; Those shadowy breasts in love's soft light arrayed, And rising by the moon of passion swayed. The political tone is also mildened in the revision, as where he changes despot courts into tyranny. One of the alterations is interesting. In the Evening Walk he had originally written And bids her soldier come her wars to share Asleep on Minden's charnel hill afar. An erratum at the end directs us to correct the second verse, thus:-- Asleep on Bunker's charnel hill afar. The whole passage is omitted in the revised edition. The original, a quarto pamphlet, is now very rare, but fortunately Charles Lamb's copy of it is now owned by my friend Professor C. E. Norton. Wordsworth somewhere rebukes the poets for making the owl a bodeful bird. He had himself done so in the Evening Walk, and corrects his epithets to suit his later
Dorset (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 3
he prescient muse guided the hand of Raisley Calvert while he wrote the poet's name in his will for a legacy of £ 900. By the death of Calvert, in 1795, this timely help came to Wordsworth at the turning-point of his life, and made it honest for him to write poems that will never die, instead of theatrical critiques as ephemeral as play-bills, or leaders that led only to oblivion. In the autumn of 1795 Wordsworth and his sister took up their abode at Racedown Lodge, near Crewkerne, in Dorsetshire. Here nearly two years were passed, chiefly in the study of poetry, and Wordsworth to some extent recovered from the fierce disappointment of his political dreams, and regained that equable tenor of mind which alone is consistent with a healthy productiveness. Here Coleridge, who had contrived to see something more in the Descriptive Sketches than the public had discovered there, first made his acquaintance. The sympathy and appreciation of an intellect like Coleridge's supplied him wi
Grasmere (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 3
Wordsworth was laid with the family in the churchyard at Grasmere. I pay many little visits to the family in the churchyard at Grasmere, writes James Dixon (an old servant of Wordsworth) to Crabb Robinson, with a simple, one might almost say canireturned to England in the spring of 1799, and settled at Grasmere in Westmoreland. In 1800, the first edition of the Lyrichenceforward never interrupted. He continued to live at Grasmere, conscientiously diligent in the composition of poems, seMinstrel, then in manuscript. The travellers returned to Grasmere on the 25th of September. It was during this year that Weaumont's, at Coleorton in Leicestershire, the cottage at Grasmere having become too small for his increased family. On his return to the Vale of Grasmere he rented the house at Allan Bank, where he lived three years. During this period he appearsthe spring of 1811 Wordsworth removed to the Parsonage at Grasmere. Here he remained two years, and here he had his second
Tintern Abbey (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 3
that its progress to oblivion seemed to be certain. But the notices in the Monthly and Critical Reviews (then the most influential) were fair, and indeed favorable, especially to Wordsworth's share in the volume. The Monthly says, So much genius and originality are discovered in this publication that we wish to see another from the same hand. The Critical, after saying that in the whole range of English poetry we scarcely recollect anything superior to a passage in Lines written near Tintern Abbey, sums up thus: Yet every piece discovers genius; and ill as the author has frequently employed his talents, they certainly rank him with the best of living poets. Such treatment cannot surely be called discouraging. Lord Byron describes himself as waking one morning and finding himself famous, and it is quite an ordinary fact, that a blaze may be made with a little saltpetre that will be stared at by thousands who would have thought the sunrise tedious. If we may believe his biogra
Cumberland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 3
e with a marrow of nutritious moral to any shadow of the same on the flowing mirror of sense. Wordsworth never lets us long forget the deeply rooted stock from which he sprang,— vien ben da lui. William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth in Cumberland on the 7th of April, 1770, the second of five children. His father was John Wordsworth, an attorney-at-law, and agent of Sir James Lowther, afterwards first Earl of Lonsdale. His mother was Anne Cookson, the daughter of a mercer in Penrith. nd in Westmoreland. The Collectorship at White-haven (a more lucrative office) was afterwards offered to Wordsworth, and declined. He had enough for independence, and wished nothing more. Still later, on the death of the Stamp-Distributor for Cumberland, a part of that district was annexed to Westmoreland, and Wordsworth's income was raised to something more than £ 1,000 a year. In 1814 he made his second tour in Scotland, visiting Yarrow in company with the Ettrick Shepherd. During this y
Cambria (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 3
was his first public, and belonged to that class of prophetically appreciative temperaments whose apparent office it is to cheer the early solitude of original minds with messages from the future. Through the greater part of his life she continued to be a kind of poetical conscience to him. Wordsworth's last college vacation was spent in a foot journey upon the Continent (1790). In January, 1791, he took his degree of B. A., and left Cambridge. During the summer of this year he visited Wales, and, after declining to enter upon holy orders under the plea that he was not of age for ordination, went over to France in November, and remained during the winter at Orleans. Here he became intimate with the republican General Beaupuis, with whose hopes and aspirations he ardently sympathized. In the spring of 1792 he was at Blois, and returned thence to Orleans, which he finally quitted in October for Paris. He remained here as long as he could with safety, and at the close of the yea
Westmoreland (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
is paternal ancestors had been settled immemorially at Penistone in Yorkshire, whence his grandfather had emigrated to Westmoreland. His mother, a woman of piety and wisdom, died in March, 1778, being then in her thirty-second year. His father, who the winter at Goslar, Wordsworth and his sister returned to England in the spring of 1799, and settled at Grasmere in Westmoreland. In 1800, the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads being exhausted, it was republished with the addition of another ve no more during the rest of his life. In March of this year he was appointed Distributor of Stamps for the county of Westmoreland, an office whose receipts rendered him independent, and whose business he was able to do by deputy, thus leaving him aich enabled him to fill his office as well as Dr. Franklin could have done. A fitter man could not have been found in Westmoreland. The Collectorship at White-haven (a more lucrative office) was afterwards offered to Wordsworth, and declined. He ha
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