William Wordsworth


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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

Oil portrait by Henry William Pickersgill, ca. 1850

(Born: April 7, 1770 - Died: April 23, 1850)

English poet. He was Poet Laureate of Britain, beginning in 1843 until his death. Poe most directly criticizes Wordsworth in “Letter to B——.”

 

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  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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