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1846 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nations poetry or literature. May 22 – The Brontë sisters first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis and it sells just two copies in the first year. September 12 – Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, departing for the continent a week later
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1847 in literature
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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1847. January – Vanity Fair, A Novel without a Hero begins serial publication in Punch magazine, with the author, William Makepeace Thackeray, march–April – Ivan Goncharovs debut novel A Common Story is published in Sovremennik. April – Robert Browning settles with his wife and fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence, hans Christian Andersen begins his first visit to Britain during which he meets Charles Dickens. June 10 – Fictional date at the end of Anne Brontës The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, july – London publisher Thomas Cautley Newby accepts for publication Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontës Agnes Grey. August 7–24 – Charlotte Brontë completes the manuscript of Jane Eyre at Haworth, september 16 – William Shakespeares birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation. October 19 – Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre is published in London by Smith, november – Dmitry Grigorovichs anti-serfdom novel Anton Goremyka is published in Sovremennik with its politically sensitive last scene rewritten by a censor. November 1 – John Maddison Mortons one-act farce Box and Cox opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London with John Pritt Harley and John Baldwin Buckstone in the title rôles. December 14 – Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontës Agnes Grey are published in a 3-volume set under the pen names of Ellis, Wuthering Heights will be Emilys only published novel as she dies aged 30 a year later. London publisher E. Churton brings out the first six of George Sands books to be issued in English, the translations being by Matilda Hays, Eliza Ashurst and Rev. Edmund Larken
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1849 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1849. March–November – La Tribune des Peuples, a romantic nationalist periodical, is published by Adam Mickiewicz. April 22 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky and fellow members of the literary Petrashevsky Circle are arrested for their progressive views. Sentenced to death on November 16 and facing a firing squad on December 23 he and some others are reprieved at the last moment, may 1 – Charles Dickenss Bildungsroman David Copperfield begins serial publication. May 10 – The Astor Place Riot takes place in Manhattan over a dispute between two Shakespearean actors, the American Edwin Forrest and the Englishman William Macready, may 28 – Anne Brontë dies of tuberculosis at Scarborough, aged 29. September 20 – Honoré de Balzac travels to Poland to meet Eveline Hanska, october 3 – Edgar Allan Poe is found on the streets of Baltimore delirious, in great distress, and. in need of immediate assistance. October–December – Thomas De Quinceys essay The English Mail-Coach appears in issues of Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, November – The English scholarly correspondence magazine Notes and Queries is first published. November 14 – A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, J. A. Leipzig publisher B. G. Teubner begins publishing the Bibliotheca Teubneriana series of editions of the Classics. Whos Who is published for the first time in the United Kingdom, philip Massingers play Believe as You List receives its first publication,218 years after its theatrical première
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1852 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1852. February 2 – Alexandre Dumas, filss stage adaptation of his 1848 novel La Dame aux caméllias is premièred at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris. February 24 – Nikolai Gogol burns some of his manuscripts, including most of the part of Dead Souls. He takes to his bed and dies a few days later, march – Serialization of Charles Dickens novel Bleak House begins, the September installment introduces the first detective in an English novel. The first dramatic adaptations appear on the New York stage from Autumn, april – Samuel Orchart Beeton launches The Englishwomans Domestic Magazine, the first British magazine aimed at a middle-class female readership. April 16 – Ivan Turgenev is imprisoned and exiled to his estate over an obituary praising Gogol. April 24 – Wilkie Collins first contribution to Household Words, The travellers story of a strange bed, is an early example of crime fiction involving the police. August 5 – Exiled French novelist Victor Hugo moves to Saint Helier on Jersey in the Channel Islands, September 2 – The public library in Campfield, Manchester, England, is the first to offer free lending under the U. K. Public Libraries Act 1850, Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Charles Dickens are present at the opening ceremony, november – Leo Tolstoys debut novel, Childhood, is published under the initials L. N. in this months issue of the Saint Petersburg literary journal Sovremennik. Pierre Larousse founds his publishing house in Paris, hanah Mullens Karuna O Phulmonir Bibaran is the first Bengali novel. M. Reynolds – Mary Price Caroline Rush – The North and the South, or, Slavery and Its Contrasts William L
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1850 in art
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Events from the year 1850 in art. Controversial exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Holman Hunt and Millais at the Royal Academy, james Collinson resigns from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which then dissolves. Francisco Goyas engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published, edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City. Grand Prix de Rome, painting, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry, Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture, Grand Prix de Rome, architecture, Grand Prix de Rome, music, J. A
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1850 in architecture
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The year 1850 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Britannia Bridge in north Wales, engineered by Robert Stephenson, is opened, newcastle railway station in the north-east of England, designed by John Dobson, is opened. Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris, designed by Henri Labrouste, is completed, château de Boursault, France, designed by Jean-Jacques Arveuf-Fransquin. Vĩnh Tràng Temple, Mỹ Tho, Vietnam
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In Memoriam A.H.H.
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In Memoriam A. H. H. is a poem by the British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poets beloved Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam and it contains some of Tennysons most accomplished lyrical work, and is an unusually sustained exercise in lyric verse. It is widely considered to be one of the poems of the 19th century. He views the cruelty of nature and mortality in light of materialist science, owing to its length and its arguable breadth of focus, the poem might not be thought an elegy or a dirge in the strictest formal sense. The poem is not arranged exactly in the order in which it was written, the prologue, for example, is thought to have been one of the last things written. The earliest material is thought to be that which begins Fair ship, critics believe, however, that the poem as a whole is meant to be chronological in terms of the progression of Tennysons grief. The passage of time is marked by the three descriptions of Christmas at different points in the poem, and the ends with a description of the marriage of Tennysons sister. In Memoriam is written in four-line ABBA stanzas of iambic tetrameter, though not metrically unusual, given the length of the work, the metre creates a tonal effect which often divides readers – is it the natural sound of mourning and grief, or merely monotonous. The death of Hallam, and Tennysons attempts to cope with this, remain the strand that ties all these together. The most frequently quoted lines in the poem are perhaps I hold it true, whateer befall, I feel it when I sorrow most, Tis better to have loved and this stanza is to be found in Canto 27. The last two lines are taken as offering a meditation on the dissolution of a romantic relationship. However, the originally referred to the death of the poets beloved friend. They are reminiscent of a line from William Congreves popular 1700 play, The Way of the World, an infant crying in the night An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry. An Evangelical focus on unquestioning belief in revealed truth taken from an interpretation of the Bible was already coming into conflict with emerging findings of science. Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams, although this phrase is commonly ascribed to Tennyson, it already was in use. For example, The Hagerstown Mail in March 1837, Hereupon and this poem was published before Charles Darwin made his theory public in 1859. However, the phrase Nature, red in tooth and claw in canto 56 quickly was adopted by others as a phrase that evokes the process of natural selection and it was and is used by both those opposed to and in favour of the theory of evolution. However, at the end of the poem, Tennyson emerges with his Christian faith reaffirmed, progressing from doubt and despair to faith and hope, a dominant theme also seen in his poem Ulysses
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victorias reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, such as Break, Break, Break, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tears, Idle Tears, Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, Ulysses, and Tithonus. During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success and he is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England and he was born into a middle-class line of Tennysons, but also had a noble and royal ancestry. His father, George Clayton Tennyson, was rector of Somersby, also rector of Benniworth and Bag Enderby, and vicar of Grimsby. Rev. George Clayton Tennyson raised a family and was a man of superior abilities and varied attainments, who tried his hand with fair success in architecture, painting, music. He was comfortably well off for a clergyman and his shrewd money management enabled the family to spend summers at Mablethorpe. Alfred Tennysons mother, Elizabeth Fytche, was the daughter of Stephen Fytche, vicar of St. James Church, Louth and rector of Withcall, Tennysons father carefully attended to the education and training of his children. Tennyson and two of his brothers were writing poetry in their teens and a collection of poems by all three was published locally when Alfred was only 17. One of those brothers, Charles Tennyson Turner, later married Louisa Sellwood, the sister of Alfreds future wife. Another of Tennysons brothers, Edward Tennyson, was institutionalised at a private asylum, Tennyson was a student of Louth Grammar School for four years and then attended Scaitcliffe School, Englefield Green and King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1827, where he joined a society called the Cambridge Apostles. A portrait of Tennyson by George Frederic Watts is in Trinitys collection, at Cambridge, Tennyson met Arthur Henry Hallam and William Henry Brookfield, who became his closest friends. His first publication was a collection of his rhymes and those of his elder brother Charles entitled Poems by Two Brothers. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellors Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, reportedly, it was thought to be no slight honour for a young man of twenty to win the chancellors gold medal. He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830, claribel and Mariana, which later took their place among Tennysons most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although decried by critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day. In the spring of 1831, Tennysons father died, requiring him to leave Cambridge before taking his degree and he returned to the rectory, where he was permitted to live for another six years and shared responsibility for his widowed mother and the family
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Irish poetry
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Irish poetry includes poetry in two languages, Irish and English. The earliest surviving poems in Irish date back to the 6th century and this culminated in the work of the poets of the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century. Poetry in Irish represents the oldest vernacular poetry in Europe, the earliest examples date from the 6th century, and are generally short lyrics on themes from religion or the world of nature. They were frequently written by their authors in the margins of the illuminated manuscripts that they were copying. The best known example is Pangur Bán and it was practical for poems to be short because the Irish recognized that it was necessary to use any means necessary to make the poems lasting in their oral culture. To accomplish such a feat as well as they have, they used complicated rhyme schemes that would render a poem nonsensical if any of the key words were changed from the original version, in an oral culture, Irish poetry had many uses. A poem could be used to both the poet and the subject of the poem, oftentimes kings would commission poets to create a piece about them. Such poems would be passed on to descendants so they would remember the deeds of past generations. Kings would also commission poets to write poems of advertisement, speaking of the greatness and worthiness. Oral poetry, because it was in the vernacular, was used for entertainment. Poems that were entertaining could also be informative, teaching people lessons or offering them wisdom of experience for dealing with situations they would encounter in their everyday lives. Finally, poems, especially those featured in the sagas, were thought to be an instrument of the supernatural, Another source of early Irish poetry is the poems in the tales and sagas, such as the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Unlike many other European epic cycles, the Irish sagas were written in prose, Irish bards formed a professional hereditary caste of highly trained, learned poets. As officials of the court of king or chieftain, they performed a number of official roles and they were chroniclers and satirists whose job it was to praise their employers and damn those who crossed them. It was believed that a well-aimed bardic satire, glam dicin, the Metrical Dindshenchas, or Lore of Places, is probably the major surviving monument of Irish bardic verse. It is a great onomastic anthology of naming legends of significant places in the Irish landscape, the earliest of these date from the 11th century, and were probably originally compiled on a provincial basis. As a national compilation, the Metrical Dindshenchas has come down to us in two different recensions. Knowledge of the real or putative history of local places formed an important part of the education of the elite in ancient Ireland, verse tales of Fionn and the Fianna, sometimes known as Ossianic poetry, were extremely common in Ireland and Scotland throughout this period
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Arthur Hallam
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Arthur Henry Hallam was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work, In Memoriam A. H. H. by his close friend and fellow poet, Alfred Tennyson. Hallam has been described as the jeune homme fatal of his generation, Hallam was born in London, son of the historian Henry Hallam. He attended school at Eton, where he met future Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, Hallam was an important influence on Gladstone, introducing him to Whiggish ideas and people. In October 1828, Hallam went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, as Christopher Ricks observes, The friendship of Hallam and Tennyson was swift and deep. Hallam and Tennyson became friends in April 1829 and they both entered the Chancellors Prize Poem Competition. Both joined the Cambridge Apostles, which met every Saturday night during term to discuss, over coffee and anchovy sandwiches, serious questions of religion, literature, Hallam spent the 1830 Easter vacation with Tennyson in Somersby and declared his love for Emily. Hallam and Tennyson planned to publish a book of poems together, Hallam’s father, however, objected, and Arthurs Poems was privately published and printed in 1830. In the summer vacation, Tennyson and Hallam travelled to the Pyrenees, in December, Hallam again visited Somersby and became engaged to Emily. His father forbade him to visit Somersby until he came of age at twenty-one, in February 1831, Tennyson’s father died, with the result that Tennyson could no longer afford to continue at Cambridge. In August, Hallam wrote an enthusiastic article On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry and he introduced Tennyson to the publisher Edward Moxon. In February 1832, Hallam visited Emily, I love her madly and she was charmed by his bright, angelic spirit and his gentle, chivalrous manner. In July Tennyson and Hallam travelled to the Rhine, in October Hallam entered the office of a conveyancer, Mr Walters, of Lincolns Inn Fields. In December, thanks largely to Hallam’s support and practical help, Hallam again spent Christmas at Somersby. In July 1833, Hallam visited Emily, on 3 August, he left with his father for Europe. On 13 September, they went to Vienna, with Arthur complaining of fever and it was apparently a recurrence of the ague he had suffered earlier that year, and, although it would delay their departure to Prague, there seemed to be little cause for alarm. Quinine and a few days rest were prescribed, by Sunday 15th, Arthur felt sufficiently better to take a short walk with his father in the evening. When he returned to the hotel he ordered some sack and lay down on the sofa, leaving his son reading in front of the fire, his father went out for a further stroll. He returned to find Arthur still on the sofa, apparently asleep, only after a short time did Henry Hallam notice the odd position of his head
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Edward Moxon
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Edward Moxon was a British poet and publisher, significant in Victorian literature. Moxon was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire, where his father Michael worked in the wool trade, in 1817 he left for London, joining Longman in 1821. In 1826, encouraged by his friend Charles Lamb, he published a volume of verse, entitled The Prospect, and other Poems, in 1830 Moxon started his own publishing firm in New Bond Street, aided by a £500 loan from Samuel Rogers. The first volume he produced was Charles Lambs Album Verses, Moxon also published an illustrated edition of Rogerss Italy in 1830, £10,000 being spent upon the illustrations. Moving to 44 Dover Street, Piccadilly in 1833, Moxon married Emma Isola, william Wordsworth entrusted him with the publication of his works from 1835 onwards, and in 1839 he issued the first complete edition of Percy Bysshe Shelleys poems. Some passages in Shelleys Queen Mab resulted in a charge of blasphemy being made against Moxon in 1841, the case was tried before Lord Denman. Serjeant Talfourd defended Moxon, but the jury returned a verdict of guilty, both Tennyson and Wordsworth were to become personal friends of Moxon. On Moxons death, his business was continued by the printer Frederick Evans and later James Bertrand Payne, with input from Moxons widow Emma, in 1865 the firm published Algernon Charles Swinburnes Atalanta in Calydon, in 1871 it was taken over by Ward, Lock & Tyler. Biography of Edward Moxon by his great grandson. This article incorporates text from a now in the public domain, Chisholm, Hugh. Hans Ostrom, Edward Moxon, Dictionary of Literary Biography, British Publishers I
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Emily Tennyson, Lady Tennyson
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Emily Sarah Tennyson, Lady Tennyson was the wife of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and a creative talent in her own right. She was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire and her father was a solicitor who acted for the Tennyson family many times over the years. Her mother Sarah, who died aged 28 when Emily was three, was a member of the Franklin family, sister of Sir John Franklin, an explorer, and Sir Willingham Franklin. Emily first met Alfred Tennyson during childhood, but they did not become close until much later, for much of the intervening time, they did not see one another at all. They had two sons, Hallam and Lionel, during Tennysons lifetime, Emily was his strong supporter and employed her own talents in setting some of his lyrics to music. After his death in 1892, Lady Tennyson devoted herself to helping her son write the authorised biography and she is buried in All Saints Church, Freshwater, Isle of Wight. Tennyson, Emily Sarah, Lady Tennyson in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 54, 147-149
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Shiplake
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Shiplake is a two-centred village and rural civil parish on the left bank of the River Thames centred 2.3 miles south of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England. Binfield Heath away from the Thames was once part of the parish, Shiplake railway station is the only through station on the Henley Branch Line. The railway crosses the Thames via the iron-girder Shiplake Railway Bridge which built in 1897, the line has train services connected to the national network requiring a change at Twyford to the south. Shiplake College is a independent school which has many listed buildings. The A4155 main road from Henley to Reading, Berkshire passes the edge of the village. The parish church dedicated to St Peter and St Paul dates from at least the 13th century and is the centre of the parish of Shiplake in the diocese of Oxford. In 1869 the Gothic Revival architect, G. E. Street, rebuilt the chancel, north aisle, parts of the south aisle and replaced all its windows traceries. The church is a Grade II* listed building The church tower has a ring of eight bells, Shiplake Church also has a Sanctus bell cast by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon in 1929. In 1773 the Thames Navigation Commission built Shiplake Lock on the River Thames about 0.5 miles downriver from the main village. In 1857 the Great Western Railway opened a line between Twyford and Henley-on-Thames, crossing the Thames on Shiplake Railway Bridge, about 300 yards downstream from Shiplake Lock. The GWR built the only station on the branch at Lower Shiplake 1 mile northwest of the historic village. Twyford provides access to the straight east-west part-stopping services between hub city stations London Paddington and Reading, Lower Shiplake has since grown into the largest settlement within the parish. In 1889 the author Jerome K. Jerome featured the village in his novel Three Men in a Boat, Shiplake Court is former a country house rebuilt in 1894 overlooking the Thames, which in 1959 became Shiplake College, an independent boarding school. In 2003 the village of Binfield Heath and hamlet of Crowsley, in the Anglican church the ecclesiastical parish retains these areas and also Dunsden which has contributed to a more rural civil parish, Eye and Dunsden to the south. Shiplake has a hall, Womens Institute, amateur dramatic society, a bowls club. Most homes post-date the railway and the village has a minority of industrial, storage, retail, distribution. Outside of the college and the church the only other conservation-listed structure is Shiplake House and it is regency architecture with a white stucco façade probably covering brick, a slate roof and stuccoed end stacks. It is a rectangular building with a five-window range
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William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworths magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was known as the poem to Coleridge. Wordsworth was Britains Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850 and 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. Wordsworths father was a representative of James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale and, through his connections. He was frequently away from home on business, so the young William and his siblings had little involvement with him and remained distant from him until his death in 1783. However, he did encourage William in his reading, and in particular set him to commit to memory large portions of verse, including works by Milton, Shakespeare, William was also allowed to use his fathers library. William also spent time at his mothers house in Penrith, Cumberland, where he was exposed to the moors, but did not get along with his grandparents or his uncle. His hostile interactions with them distressed him to the point of contemplating suicide, Wordsworth was taught both the Bible and the Spectator, but little else. It was at the school in Penrith that he met the Hutchinsons, including Mary, after the death of his mother, in 1778, Wordsworths father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School in Lancashire and sent Dorothy to live with relatives in Yorkshire. She and William did not meet again for nine years. Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine and that same year he began attending St Johns College, Cambridge. He received his BA degree in 1791 and he returned to Hawkshead for the first two summers of his time at Cambridge, and often spent later holidays on walking tours, visiting places famous for the beauty of their landscape. In 1790 he went on a tour of Europe, during which he toured the Alps extensively, and visited nearby areas of France, Switzerland. In November 1791, Wordsworth visited Revolutionary France and became enchanted with the Republican movement and he fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their daughter Caroline. Financial problems and Britains tense relations with France forced him to return to England alone the following year. The circumstances of his return and his subsequent behaviour raised doubts as to his wish to marry Annette. With the Peace of Amiens again allowing travel to France, in 1802 Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy visited Annette, the purpose of the visit was to prepare Annette for the fact of his forthcoming marriage to Mary Hutchinson
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The Prelude
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The Prelude or, Growth of a Poets Mind, An Autobiographical Poem is an autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. Intended as the introduction to the more philosophical Recluse, which Wordsworth never finished, The Prelude is an extremely personal, Wordsworth began The Prelude in 1798 at the age of 28 and continued to work on it throughout his life. He never gave it a title, he called it the Poem to Coleridge, the poem was unknown to the general public until published three months after Wordsworths death in 1850, its final name given to it by his widow Mary. The Prelude is widely regarded as Wordsworths greatest work, there are three versions of the poem, The 1799 Prelude, called the Two-Part Prelude, composed 1798–99, containing the first two parts of the later poem. The 1805 Prelude, which was found and printed by Ernest de Sélincourt in 1926, the 1850 Prelude, published shortly after Wordsworths death, in 14 books. The poem was intended as the prologue to a long three-part epic and philosophical poem, Wordsworth planned to write this work together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, their joint intent being to surpass John Miltons Paradise Lost. Coleridges inspiration and interest is evidenced in his letters, for instance, in 1799 he writes to Wordsworth, I am anxiously eager to have you steadily employed on The Recluse. It would do good, and might form a Part of The Recluse. According to Monique R. Morgans Narrative Means to Lyric Ends in Wordsworths Prelude, the goal of the poem is to demonstrate his fitness to produce great poetry, and The Prelude itself becomes evidence of that fitness. It traces the growth of the mind by stressing the mutual consciousness. But its focus and mood present a sharp fundamental fall away from the neoclassical and into the Romantic. Whilst Milton in Paradise Lost rewrites Gods creation and The Fall of Man so as to justify the ways of God to men, Wordsworth chooses his own mind and imagination as a subject worthy of epic. This spiritual autobiography evolves out of Wordsworths persistent metaphor a circular journey whose end is to arrive where we started / And know that place for the first time, Wordsworths Prelude opens with a literal journey whose chosen goal is the Vale of Grasmere. The Prelude narrates a number of journeys, most notably the crossing of the Alps in Book VI and, in the beginning of the final book. In the course of the poem, such literal journeys become the vehicle for a spiritual journey—the quest within the poets memory. 1799 in poetry 1805 in poetry 1850 in poetry Complete text of 1799 Version of The Prelude at Rutgers Complete text of 1850 Version of The Prelude at Bartleby. com
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1798 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1798. February – Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes the conversation poem Frost at Midnight, april – Coleridge writes the conversation poems Fears in Solitude and The Nightingale. April 16 – Coleridges The Recantation, An Ode is published in The Morning Post, april 30 – Richard Cumberlands comedy The Eccentric Lover is first performed at the Covent Garden Theatre in London. First London publication is on October 4, October 11 – Elizabeth Inchbalds Lovers Vows is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. October 12 – The rebuilt Weimarer Hoftheater is inaugurated with the first performance of the first part of Friedrich Schillers dramatic trilogy Wallenstein, Das Lager, publication of Ivan Kotliarevskys mock-heroic poem Eneyida, the first printed work in the modern Ukrainian language. The National Library of the Netherlands originates when the Batavian Republic opens the former library of the stadtholder to the public, the Académie française publishes the 5th edition of its Dictionnaire. Thomas Nelson originates in Edinburgh as a second-hand religious bookshop
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1798 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nations poetry or literature. July 13 – William Wordsworths poem Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour,13 July 1798 written, William Wordsworth begins writing the first version of The Prelude, finishing it in two parts in 1799. This version describes the growth of his understanding up to age 17 and he would revise the poem more than once during his lifetime but not publish it. Months after his death in 1850 it was published for the first time, robert Anderson, Poems on Various Subjects William Lisle Bowles, St. Michaels Mount George Canning and J. H
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1799 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nations poetry or literature. December 20 – William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy first take up residence at Dove Cottage, William Wordsworth completes the first version of The Prelude, begun in 1798. This version, in two parts, describes the growth of his understanding up to age 17, when he leaves home for the University of Cambridge and he will revise the poem more than once during his lifetime but not publish it. Months after his death in 1850 it will be published for the first time in its final version. G. G. Lewis William Sotheby, The Battle of the Nile, about Nelsons defeat of the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile on August 1,1798 Robert Southey, Poems
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1820 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nations poetry or literature. On the suggestion of his doctors, he leaves London for Italy with his friend Joseph Severn and moves into a house on the Spanish Steps in Rome, william Wordsworth completes another major revision of The Prelude. This revision was begun in 1819 and his first version, in two parts, was done in 1798 and 1799. A second major revision, bringing the work to 13 parts, the book is not published in any form until shortly after his death in 1850, in a 14-part version. The revisions do not just add text but remove and rearrange passages as well, many of Wordsworths friends read the book in manuscript during his lifetime. First translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into a language, Danish, Bjovulfs Drape. Or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue
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