Title: William Wordsworth
Headings: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
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(1) In 1792 Dr. Richard Watson, the Bishop of Llandaff, published a pamphlet attacking the French Revolution. In Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793), William Wordsworth attempted to reply to Dr. Richard Watson.
(2) William Wordsworth, The Wealth of Nations (1805)

Content: Ode to Duty (about the death of his brother), Resolution and Independence and Intimations of Immortality. Although attacked by William Hazlitt, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, for renouncing his early radicalism, Wordsworth was popular with most critics. The Excursion (1814) was well received and this was followed by The White Doe of Rylstone (1815), Miscellaneous Poems (1815) and The Waggoner (1819). Wordsworth, now established as a conservative and patriotic poet, succeeded Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843. William Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount, Ambleside in 1850. ▲ Main Article ▲
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(1) In 1792 Dr. Richard Watson, the Bishop of Llandaff, published a pamphlet attacking the French Revolution. In Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793), William Wordsworth attempted to reply to Dr. Richard Watson. Twenty-five millions of Frenchmen have felt that they could have no security for their liberties under any modification of monarchical power. They have in consequence unanimously chosen a Republic. You cannot but observe from that they have only exercised that right in which, by your own confession, liberty essentially resides.