Arranges for Pickersgill to paint a portrait of him for Sir Robert Peel.
ALS to H.W. Pickersgill, from Rydal Mount
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- Dates of Creation29 June 1840 (Date from postmark.)
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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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Bought from Maggs, 1924.
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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.
Bibliography
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. 90-1.
The Eagle XLIII (1924) 326.
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