William Wordsworth and the Victorians — Literary Relations: Influences, Analogues, Intertextuality

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General

• Wordsworth's Intellect and Influence
• The Prelude and Victorian autobiography
• Victorian readers encountered a different Wordsworth than we do

Matthew Arnold

• Sir Henry Taylor a link between Wordsworth and Arnold

Christina Rossetti

• Christina Rossetti's "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest") and Wordsworth's "A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal"

John Ruskin

• The co-hero (with Turner) of Modern Painters I
• Modern Painters III an indirect criticism of Wordsworth
• Wordsworth's excursive sight and Ruskin

A. C. Swinburne

• “Exalted and so composed, so ardent and serene”: Swinburne on The Poetry of Wordsworth and Milton
• Swinburne on Wordsworth’s Patriotism, Conservative Politics, and Yet Openness to One Liberal Cause
• Swinburne on Wordsworth as the Poet of Suffering, and of Sympathy with Suffering
• Swinburne on Wordsworth’s Poetry and the Wordsworthians

Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Nature in Wordsworth and Tennyson

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