Dorothy Wordsworth was born on 25 December 1771 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the English Lake District, and died on 25 January 1855 at Rydal Mount, Westmorland. For much of the nineteenth century, she was remembered chiefly as the devoted sister and household companion of William Wordsworth, the poet whose name became central to English Romanticism. Modern readers, however, increasingly encounter her as a writer of…
“The waters were tumultuous and angry, and the wind seized the trees and tossed them about.”
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William Sidney Walker was born on 4 December 1795 at Pembroke, in the old maritime county of Pembrokeshire in South Wales, and died in London on 15 October 1846. He occupies an unusual place in nineteenth-century English literary history: he was at once a precocious poet, a brilliant classical scholar, an acute if sometimes severe critic, and one of the earliest serious investigators of Shakespeare’s metre and langua…
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