Then and Now: Romantic-Era Poets in the Encyclopedia Britannica, eleventh edition, 1910-1911

People in the project

G. Kim Blank is the creator and editor of the project. He is Professor in the English Department at the University of Victoria. He has published books on William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley, as well as editing books on nineteenth-century British Poetry (with Margot Louis) and Percy Shelley; he has also published two novels. He is the creator and author of website Mapping Keatsʼs Progress.
Martin Holmes is the project programmer, working from the Humanities Computing and Media Centre at the University of Victoria.
Alexandria Brooks as a work study student is a transcriber, encoder, editor, and biography writer for non-modern scholars and writers. She is an English Honours and Hispanic Studies Minor student at the University of Victoria. Her interests are Romantic literature, thought, and politics. Keats and Coleridge inspire her own poetry; she hopes one day to be published and contribute to the field of Romantic studies.
Stephen Behrendt is the George Holmes Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. His recent book is a critical anthology, Romantic-Era Irish Women Poets in English (Cork UP, 2021). He is also the editor of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetry and Prose (Longman Cultural Edition, 2009), Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (electronic textbase of 90+ volumes, Alexander Street Press, 2008), and Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press (Wayne State UP, 1997). With Nancy J. Kushigian: editor of Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street Press, 2002); with Harriet Kramer Linkin, editor of Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception (Kentucky UP, 1999). He is the author of Shelley and his Audiences (Nebraska UP, 1989), Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte (Macmillan/St. Martinʼs, 1997), British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009), and Reading William Blake (Macmillan/St. Martinʼs, 1992). He is a widely published poet.
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
TIGHE, Mary (1772-1810)
Michael Bradshaw has written extensively on late Romantic authors, including Thomas Lovell Beddoes, George Darley, Thomas Hood, and Letitia Landon. He is the co-editor, with Ute Berns, of The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes (2007) and editor of Disabling Romanticism: Body, Mind, and Text (2016). He is currently working on Romantic-era allusion in contemporary poetry, and on disabilities in American fiction. Michael is Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Winchester.
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BEDDOES, Thomas Lovell (1803–1849)
Miranda Burgess is associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia. Her most recent series of articles and chapter explores intersections of mobility, mediation, and figuration in Wordsworth, Owenson, and Mary Shelley. Her book in progress, Romantic Transport, 1790-1830, considers the figuration of being with others in the contexts of global mobility and coloniality. Burgess’s next project is on the uses of Romantic poetry and poetics in settler-colonial placemaking in the Pacific Northwest.
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OWENSON, Sydney [later Lady Morgan] (c. 1783-1859)
Gerard Carruthers is Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow and General Editor of the multi-volume Oxford University Press edition of the Collected Works of Robert Burns. Recent books include, co-edited with Colin Kidd, Literature and Union: Scottish Texts, British Contexts (OUP, 2018), and as editor the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns (2023), the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (2023) and the co-edited 1820: Scottish Rebellion, essays on a nineteenth-century insurrection (John Donald, 2022).
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BURNS, Robert (1759-1796)
James Chandler is William K. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He has been general editor of Cambridge Studies in Romanticism since 1990. He has published extensively on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature—especially in Romantic studies, Irish Studies, and Scottish Studies—and also on the history of cinema. Sir Walter Scott figures prominently in his book England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism (1998). He has also published on Scott and cinema. His book, Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts appeared this spring from Wiley-Blackwell. This past year he held the Avery Distinguished Fellowship at the Huntington Library to work on his current book project: Figures in a Field: Wordsworth and Edgeworth.
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SCOTT, Walter (1771-1832)
Jeffrey N. Cox is a Distinguished Professor in English and Humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is also a College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction. He previously served at CU as Director of the Center for Humanities and Arts and as Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs. Before coming to CU, he worked at Texas A&M University, College Station. His contributions to studies in Romanticism include In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France (1987); Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Shelley, Keats, Hunt, and their Circle, winner of the 2000 South Central Modern Language Association Best Book Award; and Romanticism in the Shadow of War: The Culture of the Napoleonic War Years (Cambridge UP, 2014). His latest book is William Wordsworth, Second Generation Romantic: Contesting Poetry after Waterloo (Cambridge UP, 2021). He has edited nine volumes or special issues, including the Norton Critical Edition of The Poetry and Prose of John Keats. He is the author of more than fifty essays. In 2009, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America. He is currently Chair of Department of English at CU.
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HUNT, Leigh (1784-1859)
Stuart Curran received his BA and MA from the University of Michigan and his PhD from Harvard; he has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Vartan Gregorian Emeritus Professor of English. Author of two critical studies of Percy Shelley, he for many years was the editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal and later served as President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America. He has written a history of Romanticism, Poetic Form and British Romanticism, and has edited the Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. He also served for many years as section editor (1740-1830) for The Brown University Women Writers Project text base and publications, of which his edition of The Poems of Charlotte Smith (Oxford UP, 1993) was an early result; his hypertext edition of Mary Shelleyʼs Frankenstein (2000) is available free on the internet; and he has written widely on women poets during the Romantic period. His 14-volume edition of The Works of Charlotte Smith appeared from Pickering & Chatto; and, until his passing in October 2024, he was also associate editor of the Johns Hopkins UP edition of the Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, which is still in progress.
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SMITH, Charlotte (1749-1806)
JoEllen DeLucia is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. She is the author of A Feminine Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress (2014). She has written several essays and articles about women writers, moral philosophy, and print culture. Currently, she is working on a project that investigates Ann Radcliffeʼs contributions to Romantic print culture.
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SEWARD, Anna (1742-1809)
Patricia Demers is Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of The World of Hannah More (1966) and editor of More’s novel Cœlebs in Search of a Wife (2007). She is also author of Heaven Upon Earth: The Forms of Moral and Religious Childrenʼs Literature to 1850 (1993) and Womenʼs Writing in English: Early Modern England (2005). Among her many other publications, she has edited anthologies of childrenʼs literature, From Instruction to Delight: Childrenʼs Literature to 1850 (fourth edition, 2015) and A Garland from the Golden Age: Children’s Literature from 1850-1900 (1984). Her most recent book is Women’s Writing in Canada (2019). She was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2016.
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MORE, Hannah (1745-1833)
James Engell has taught at Harvard since 1978 and chaired its Department of English for seven years. He has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on eighteenth-century and Romantic studies, including The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism (1981); co-editor with W. Jackson Bate of Biographia Literaria (1983); Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge (1989); editor of Coleridge: The Early Family Letters (1994); The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values (1999); editor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry for Young People (2003); co-author with Anthony Dangerfield of Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money (2005); with Michael Raymond an illustrated Prelude (1805), newly edited from the manuscripts (2016); and with K. P. Van Anglen a collection of essays on The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age (2017), in which Engell writes about Hebrew as The Other Classic. His current project is on S. T. Coleridge.
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Michael Ferber is Professor Emeritus of English and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He majored in ancient Greek at Swarthmore (1966) and then enrolled for his doctorate at Harvard. Progress at Harvard was slowed because he returned his draft card to the Justice Department and organized events for others to do so; for that he was indicted for conspiracy along with Dr. Benjamin Spock and three others. He believes Blake was with him in this. Ferber dropped out to co-author a book about draft resistance before finishing up at Harvard in 1975. He then joined the Yale English Department as an assistant professor. From 1983 to 1987 he served on the staff of Coalition for a New Foreign Policy in Washington DC. He has published two books about Blake, one about Shelley, Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP), and three editions of A Dictionary of Literary Symbols (Cambridge UP), among other books. In retirement he has returned to Greek, despite Blake’s protests about the silly Greek & Latin slaves of the Sword.
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BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
Tim Fulford rusticates on the banks of Wye, where he writes books and articles on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Bloomfield, John Clare, Humphry Davy, and other rural poets. Amongst his current projects are a website on and scholarly edition of Henry Kirke White https://kirkewhitecom.wordpress.com (his edition of Kirke White’s Collected Poems will be published by Liverpool University Press in 2024); an edition of the letters of the chemist, doctor, and poet Thomas Beddoes; an edition of Southeyʼs Lives of Uneducated Poets; and a monograph called Dialogues with the Dead, on William Wordsworthʼs last poems. Recently, he has published The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy (edited with Sharon Ruston, 2020) and The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (2021); and in 2023 (with Sara Slinn) released The Love Letters and Love Poems of Anna Beddoes, Humphry Davy, and Davies Giddy. He is Professor of English in the School of Humanities at De Montfort University.
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BLOOMFIELD, Robert (1766-1823)
WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
Matthew Ingleby is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Queen Mary College, University of London. He has published books on Bloomsbury (most recently, Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury: Novel Grounds, 2018), as well as co-editing three collections, including Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century (with Matthew Kerr, Edinburgh UP, 2018). He has written numerous essays and articles in the general field, often in Victorian fiction. He is the author of the substantial entry on Crabbe in The Wiley Encyclopaedia of British Literature, 1660-1789, 2015).
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CRABBE, GEORGE (1754-1832)
Felicity R. James is Associate Professor of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature at the University of Leicester. Her research focusses on Charles and Mary Lamb and their friendship circle, including Coleridge and Wordsworth, religious Dissent, and life writing. She is currently editing the children’s works of the Lambs for the Oxford Collected Works. Her other publications include the forgotten novel of Elizabeth Hays Lanfear, Fatal Errors; or Poor Mary-Anne: A Tale of the Last Century (2019), coedited with Timothy Whelan, Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian Auto/Biography with Julian North (2017), Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860 (2011), and Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s (2008).
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LAMB, Charles (1775-1834)
Shelley King (Professor Emerita, Queen’s University) is co-editor (with John B. Pierce) of The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie (Oxford UP, 2009), and of Opie’s novels Adeline Mowbray (World’s Classics) and The Father and Daughter with Dangers of Coquetry (Broadview). She maintains the scholarly website The Amelia Alderson Opie Archive https://www.ameliaopiearchive.com, for which she is currently editing the correspondence of Amelia Opie and artist Henry Perronet Briggs. She is the author of articles on a range of Opie’s poetry and fiction.
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OPIE, Amelia (1769-1853)
Simon Kövesi is Professor of English and Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. His books include Eighteenth-Century Labouring-Class Poets (2003), James Kelman (2007), New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community (2015), John Clare: Nature, History and Criticism (2017), and Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies (2020). He is the editor of the John Clare Society Journal.
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CLARE, John (1793-1864)
Elizabeth Kraft is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Georgia. She is the co-editor (with William P. McCarthy) of The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld (1994) and Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose (2002) and is currently editing Barbauld’s literary criticism for volume 3 of The Complete Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld, gen. ed. William P. McCarthy. She is also co-editor (with Melvyn New and E. Derek Taylor) of Samuel Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison (2022) and editor of Charlotte Smith’s The Young Philosopher (1999). In addition to editorial work, she has authored four monographs in eighteenth-century studies: Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction (1992), Laurence Sterne Revisited (1996), Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire (2008), and Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films (2016) as well as numerous articles in the field.
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BARBAULD, Anna Letitia (1743-1825)
Richard Marggraf-Turley is Professor of English literature at Aberystwyth University. He has published widely on Romantic political, literary, and sexual culture, including Keats’s Boyish Imagination (2004), Bright Stars: John Keats, ‘Barry Cornwall’ and Romantic Literary Culture (2009), the co-authored Food and the Literary Imagination (2015), and, as editor, Keats’s Places (2018). He is also author of a novel set in London of 1810, The Cunning House (2015), and is one of the co-directors of the bicentennial Keats conferences organized by the Keats Foundation, of which he is a trustee.
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PROCTER, Bryan Waller [“Barry Cornwall”] (1787-1874)
Scott McEathron is Professor in the School of Literature, Writing, and Digital Humanities at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His interests include the canonical Romantic poets and essayists, especially Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Lamb, and Hazlitt, as well as several non-canonical figures associated with the laboring-class poetic tradition, especially John Clare. His work in this latter area includes New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community (ed. with Simon Kövesi, Cambridge UP, 2015) and English Labouring-Class Poets, 1800-1830 (Pickering and Chatto, 2006). He has also published several essays on nineteenth-century portraits and drawings (of Lamb, Clare, and Keats), with a focus on the Victorian art market and the workings of the National Portrait Gallery.
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ELLIOTT, Ebenezer (1781-1849)
Jerome McGann is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. His many publications include Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works (Clarendon Press); Byron and the Poetics of Adversity (Cambridge UP, 2022); Byron and Romanticism (Cambridge UP, 2002); Byronʼs Manfred, with drawings by Virgil Burnett (2009); The Romantic Ideology (U Chicago P, 1983); Fiery Dust: Byron’s Poetic Development (U. of Chicago Press, 1968); A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (U Virginia P, 1992); A New Republic of Letters: Humanities Scholarship in an Age of Digital Reproduction (Harvard UP, 2014); Byron and Wordsworth (1999); The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Byron, ed. with Alice Levine; Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, ed. with Daniel Riess (1997); Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement (U of Chicago, 2022).
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BYRON, Lord [George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron] (1788-1824)
LANDON, Letitia Elizabeth [L.E.L.] (1802-1838)
Kenneth McNeil is Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University. His publications include Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760–1860 (2007) and Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlantic (2020), and he is one of the editors of The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature (2022).
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GRANT, Anne (1755-1838)
Lynda Pratt is Professor of Modern Literature (Romanticism) at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on Robert Southey and his circle and was general editor of Southey: Poetical Works, 1793-1810 (5 vols, 2004) and Southey: Later Poetical Works (4 vols, 2012). Her current major project is the online edition of The Collected Letters of Robert Southey (Romantic Circles, 2009-ongoing), co-edited with Ian Packer and Tim Fulford. When complete, this will make more than 7,500 annotated letters available for the first time. She is also working on an edition of Letters to Robert Southey, co-edited with Ian Packer.
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SOUTHEY, Robert (1774-1843)
Adam Rounce is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Nottingham. He has written extensively on various seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers, including Dryden, Pope, and Johnson. He is co-editor of Irish Political Writings after 1725 (2018) in the ongoing Cambridge University Press edition of the writings of Jonathan Swift, and the author of Fame and Failure (2013).
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COWPER, William (1731-1800)
Sharon Setzer is Professor Emerita in the English Department at North Carolina State University. Her publications include articles and book chapters on Mary Robinson as well as modern editions of her proto-feminist Letter to the Women of England (2009), her novels Angelina and The Natural Daughter, and a volume of her miscellaneous pieces (co-edited with William D. Brewer, 2010).
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ROBINSON, Mary (1758-1800)
Judith Bailey Slagle received her PhD from the University of Tennessee and is a former department chair and dean; she is now Professor Emerita at East Tennessee State University. Focusing on eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century literature, her publications include The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie (1999), Joanna Baillie: A Literary Life (2002), Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-Raisers and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage (2007, ed. with Daniel Ennis), Romantic Appropriations of History: The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson (2012), and numerous articles on Restoration playwrights and Baillie and her contemporaries.
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BAILLIE, Joanna (1762-1851)
David Stewart is Associate Professor of Romantic Studies at Northumbria University, UK. He has published two books: Romantic Magazines and Metropolitan Literary Culture (2011) and The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s: A Period of Doubt (2018). He has written on poetics, print culture, landscape, and the short story, and writers including Lord Byron, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, James Hogg, and William Wordsworth. His current work includes projects on the Anglo-Scottish Borders, Pierce Egan, and the 1830s.
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DARLEY, GEORGE (1795–1846)
CUNNINGHAM, Allan (1784-1842)
HOGG, James (1770-1835)
Dale Townshend is Professor of Gothic Literature in the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. His most recent publications include Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760–1840 (Oxford UP, 2019) and the three-volume The Cambridge History of the Gothic (co-edited with Angela Wright and Catherine Spooner; Cambridge UP, 2020–21). He is currently completing a monograph on Matthew Gregory Lewis for the University of Wales Press, and editing the posthumously published writings of Ann Radcliffe for the Cambridge edition of the writer’s complete works.
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RADCLIFFE, Ann (1764-1823)
Jeffery Vail is Master Lecturer in Humanities at Boston University. He has written widely on Romantic-era literature, especially that of Lord Byron and Thomas Moore. He is the author of The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron and Thomas Moore (The Johns Hopkins UP, 2001) and the editor of The Unpublished Letters of Thomas Moore (Pickering & Chatto, 2013). He has lectured on British and Irish Romanticism in the United States and abroad, including Dublin, Galway, Belfast, Paris, Salzburg, and London.
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MOORE, Thomas (1779-1852)
Amy Wilcockson is a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow, working on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project The Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham, concentrating on editing the letters of the neglected Scottish Romantic poet, Thomas Campbell (1777-1844). She is also the Communications Officer for the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS).
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CAMPBELL, Thomas (1777–1844)
Susan J. Wolfsonis Professor of English at Princeton University. She has published on a remarkable range of Romantic-era writers and subjects. On Keats: many publications, dating from 1984 (The Questioning Presence) to the award-winning Reading John Keats (2015) and A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries (Harvard UP, 2022). Swinburne’s Keats, and Swinburne’s pairing with Keats by Victorian critics, to the detraction of both, is an element in Gendering Keats, in Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2006). On Hemans: several articles and chapters:Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism (2006), editor of the first a substantial unit on Hemans for a general anthology of British Literature (Longman Anthology, 1998-2012); the editor of the fullest edition of Hemans’s writings, with contextual materials (Princeton UP, 2000). With Claire Knowles: an article on a newly discovered publication, likely Hemans’s first, in the Morning Post, 1 February 1805 (European Romantic Review 33.3: 2022). On Dorothy Wordsworth: in addition to developing and editing independent units in The Longman Anthology of British Literature (1997-2012) and inviting Susan Levin to edit a volume on her for Longman Cultural Editions (2009), Wolfson has two chapters on Dorothy Wordsworth in Romantic Interactions (2010).
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KEATS, John (1795-1821)
HEMANS, Dorothea (1793-1838)
WORDSWORTH, Dorothy (1771-1855)
Duncan Wu is Raymond A. Wagner Professor of Poetry at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and the author or editor of several volumes about the British Romantics, including A Companion to Romanticism (1998); Wordsworthʼs Reading 1770-1815 (2 vols., 1993, 1995); Wordsworth: An Inner Life (2000); Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (9 vols., 1998); and Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Playwrights and Directors (2000). His textbook, Romanticism: An Anthology, will publish its fifth edition in 2024.
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WORDSWORTH, Willliam (1770-1850)
Joanna Baillie is a featured poet.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld is a featured poet.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes is a featured poet.
William Blake is a featured poet.
Robert Bloomfield is a featured poet.
William Lisle Bowles is a featured poet.
Robert Burns is a featured poet.
George Gordon Byron is a featured poet.
John Clare is a featured poet.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a featured poet.
William Cowper is a featured poet.
George Crabbe is a featured poet.
Allan Cunningham is a featured poet.
George Darley is a featured poet.
Ebenezer Elliott is a featured poet.
Anne Grant is a featured poet.
Felicia Dorothea Hemans is a featured poet.
James Hogg is a featured poet.
Leigh Hunt is a featured poet.
John Keats is a featured poet.
Charles Lamb is a featured poet.
Letitia Landon [L. E. L.] is a featured poet.
Thomas Moore is a featured poet.
Hannah More is a featured poet.
Lady Sydney Morgan [also Sydney Owenson] is a featured poet.
Amelia Opie is a featured poet.
Sydney Owenson [see under Morgan] is a featured poet.
Bryan Waller Procter [Barry Cornwall] is a featured poet.
Ann Radcliffe is a featured poet.
Mary Robinson is a featured poet.
Sir Walter Scott is a featured poet.
Anna Seward is a featured poet.
Percy Bysshe Shelley is a featured poet.
Mary and Percy Shelley are married (see Mary and featured poet Percy).
Charlotte Smith [née Turner] is a featured poet.
Robert Southey is a featured poet.
Mary Tighe is a featured poet.
Dorothy and William Wordsworth are sibling featured poets (see Dorothy and William).
Dorothy Wordsworth is a featured poet.
William Wordsworth is a featured poet.
George David Boyle (1828–1901) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for Samuel Taylor Coleridge in part with Hugh Chisholm. He was dean of Salisbury.
Margaret Byrant (1871–1942) is one of the authors of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for John Keats. She wrote other entries for EB11 which are not included in this project such as Beaumont and Fletcher in part with A.C. Swinburne, the bibliography for the Walter Savage Landor entry, and she wrote the Alexander Pope entry in part with William Minto.
Joseph Williams Comyns Carr (1849–1916) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for William Blake. He was an English art critic and dramatist, and has his own EB11 entry where his critical and dramatic works are mentioned.
Hugh Chisholm (1866–1924) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entries for S.T. Coleridge with co-author George David Boyle and in part with J.M. Robertson, and the William Wordsworth entry with co-author William Minto. He was a journalist, author, and editor.
Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846-1920) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for Lord Byron. He is editor of the poetry within The Works of Lord Byron (7 vols., 1898–1903) and author of The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, with memoir (1 vol., 1905) which are mentioned in EB11. He was a poet and the grandson of S.T. Coleridge.
Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for Dorothy Wordsworth. He wrote many other entries which are not included in this project for people such as John Donne, A.C. Swinburne, and Tennyson, and topics such as Blank Verse, Epic Poetry, and Lyrical Poetry. He was a writer and has his own entry in the EB11 where many of his poetical and critical works are mentioned.
Edward Verrall Lucas (1868-1938) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for Charles Lamb. He is also the author of the entry for Jane Austen. Lucas was an essayist, critic, and biographer; and his contributions are discussed in Charles Lambʼs featured article written by Felicity R. James.
William Minto (1845-1893) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for Sir Walter Scott, which was updated anonymously, and for William Wordsworth with co-author Hugh Chisholm. He is also the author of other entries which are not included in this project such as for Alexander Pope in part with Margaret Byrant, and the Spenser entry in part with F.J. Snell. He has his own entry in EB11 where his works are mentioned. He was a writer, critic, and literary scholar; he inspired many writers of the day, including Edmund Gosse.
John Nichol (1833–1894) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for Robert Burns. He has his own EB11 entry where his drama Hannibal (1873), The Death of Themistocles, and other Poems (1881), Byron in the English Men of Letters series (1880), Robert Burns (1882) and Carlyle (1892) are mentioned as among his best works. He was an influential writer, critic, and literary scholar.
John Mackinnon Robertson (1856–1933) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for Samuel Taylor Coleridge in part with George David Boyle and Hugh Chisholm. He was an author and radical politician.
William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for Percy Bysshe Shelley. He is also the author of other EB11 entries, mostly painters such as Fuseli and Titian. He was an art critic. scholar, and literary editor; he edited The Poetical Works of William Blake, with a memoir (1874); brother of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, whose works he edited.
Clement King Shorter (1857–1926) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for William Cowper and George Crabbe. He also wrote the entry for the Victorian Brontë sisters on whom he wrote and edited many works. He was a journalist and magazine editor (importantly, of the Illustrated London News).
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) is the author of the 11th edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry for John Keats in part with Margaret Byrant. He also wrote other entries such as Beaumont and Fletcher in part with Margaret Byrant, and the Walter Savage Landor entry with bibliography by Margaret Byrant as well. He was an influential Victorian poet and literary critic, and he has his own entry in EB11 where his life and works are recounted by Edmund Gosse. He is discussed in the featured John Keats article written by Susan J. Wolfson.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was significant Victorian poet, an influential literary critic, and involved in the academic world as a schoolmaster and school inspector. He became Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857.
Beaumont, Francis (1584–1616) was a Jacobean dramatist and poet, most famous as a collaborator with John Fletcher.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was an influential Engish Victorian poet. She was married to Robert Browning.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) was a prominent English Victorian poet. He also wrote plays and one novel in verse, The Ring and the Book. He was married to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Fletcher, John (1579–1625) was a successful and versatile London dramatist, and contemporary of Shakespeare, who collaborated closely with Francis Beaumont.
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864) was Procterʼs daughter. She is a Victorian poet, but she occupies more than a quarter of her fatherʼs Britannica article.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was an influential essayist and critic, who was involved with the Wordsworth circle, including Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Charles Lamb. He had was acquainted with many of the prominent figures of the era.
Joseph Cottle (1770-1853) was a bookseller and author who generously published Coleridge and Southey. Significantly, he printed Coleridge and Wordsworthʼs Lyrical Ballads in 1798. He also published some minor poetry volumes himself, while later publishing some recollections of Coleridge.
William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) was the Prime Minister of Great Britain and the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was an essayist and was intrigued by the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. His most popular work is the autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (published anonymously in 1821), which delivered him fame and improved his financial situation.
Thomas Poole (1766-1837) was a tanner, farmer, essayist, and a longtime friend and supporter of Coleridge and Southey. He is a prevalent recipient of Coleridgeʼs letters.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was an Scottish author, biographer, philosopher, and historian. He met Romantic poets such as Southey, Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, and Coleridge. His most important work might his book on the history of the French Revolution (1837).
Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850) was a writer, judge, and editor and a founder of the Edinburgh Review. He was a harsh literary critic, and due to this, was even challenged by Thomas Moore to a duel. It was later found that Jeffreyʼs pistol was not loaded, and they befriended each other.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [born Godwin] (1797-1851) was a prominent Romantic novelist (in particular, of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, 1818) and wife of Percy Shelley, and daughter of two influential political writers, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. She was not a poet, but she was involved with Romantic-era poetry and aquainted with many writers of the era. Importantly, she was the first to collect and very usefully edit her husbandʼs poetry.
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) was a poet and writer contemporary to featured Romantic poets, such as Southey, Coleridge, Lamb, and Browning, but preferred Classicism over Romanticism.
David Garrick (1717-1779) was a famous playwright and actor. He was a friend to Hannah More and worked with Mary Robinson.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was a very influential English and American political activist and author. He is known for his sensational (yet controversial at the time) Rights of Man, 1791.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was a well-known Victorian poet, who became Poet Laureate in 1850 and was elevated to the peerage in 1884.
Caroline Anne Bowles (1789-1854) was a poet, writer, and the second wife of Southey. She and he married at ages fifty-two and sixty-five after Southeyʼs first wife had passed away. Caroline is not in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Horace Walpole (1717-1797) was the fourth earl of Oxford and an author, historian, publisher, and Whig politician.
Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), often known as Monk Lewis because of his famous Gothic novel, The Monk (1796), was a writer and playwright. He was fond of and acquainted himself with aristocracy and royalty. He also was acquainted with featured poets such as Tom Moore, Robert Southey, Walter Scott, and Lord Byron. He was a member of Parliament from 1796-1802.
William Angus Knight (1836-1916) was Professor of Moral Philosophy at St. Andrews University as well as a minister in the Scottish Free Church. He published widely on philosophy and religion as well as on the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Robert Browning.
Taylor, John (1781–1864) was a scholarly, progressive publisher and bookseller; editor, minor writer, pyramidologist; and half of Keats’s publisher, Taylor & Hessey.
Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855) was a successful English dramatist (best known for a few tragedies) and essayist, as well as being a minor poet. Her Our Village (1824), which sentimentally describes village life with dozens of literary sketches, went through numerous editions.
Alice Meynell, née Thompson (1847-1922) was a British critic and editor (mainly working with journals), but also gained some fame as a poet. She was greatly active in the suffrage movement.
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was a prolific English author, writing as a scholar (editor, critic, and biographer) as well as a poet. He served in World War 1. His work spanned many of the major Romantic-era poets. In his final years, he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
Robert Bridges (1844-1930), born was first of all a doctor, but he gained literary fame as an English poet and as a literary critic; he was Poet Laureate from 1913 until his death. His scholarly attentions were addressed to many, but he did significant work on John Milton, John Keats, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Barbara Pym (1913-1980) was an English novelist, known mainly for writing social comedy, including Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). Her reputation has varied over time.