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Wordsworth/Folder 1-22/Folder 1-20/Folder 11
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- Feb. 1840 (Undated, date from De Selincourt.) (Creation)
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Admitted at St John's 1787, BA 1791. Credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' (1798) in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. About 1798 he started to write a large and philosophical autobiographical poem, completed in 1805, and published posthumously in 1850 under the title 'The Prelude'. Published 'Poems in two volumes' in 1807. Poet Laureate 1843-50.
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Presented by R. Griffin, 1924.
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Refers to the 'Prioress's Tale', 'Cuckoo and Nightingale', and the passage from 'Troilus and Cressida'. Sends a message to Miss Gillies. Admires her picture which he has just received. Opines that the profession of the portrait painter would be mortifying if the artist 'did not rise above the common region of inexperienced judgement'. Remembers himself to Mrs Powell and Powell's brother. Postscript mentions the family's health, and expresses disappointment that Miss Roughsedge's portrait did not arrive.
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Ernest De Selincourt (ed.) revised, arranged, and edited by Alan G. Hill, 'The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VII The Later Years Part IV 1840-1853' (1988) p. 14-15.
The Eagle XLIII (1924) 326.