“There is no poetry which can be said to form such a distinctive portion of our household literature as that of Wordsworth.”

Seeing Wordsworth's poetry as unusually woven into ordinary domestic reading · Speech, Wordsworth Society, 8 July 1885

• Memory
• Poetry

“Before another winter came Henry Bright had passed away in his home amid his family and books, and had gone to his rest beneath the wreaths of his own Lancashire garden.”

A tender image of death framed by home, books and garden · Memorial essay, Henry Bright

• Death
• Memory
• Nature

“The poet of passion will always have a depth of sympathy, almost we may say a violence of sympathy, to which the poet of sentiment cannot attain.”

Arguing that passionate poetry can reach emotional depths beyond sentiment alone · Speech, Wordsworth Society, 8 July 1885

• Art
• Poetry