Word: wordsworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wordsworth's greatness came from his application of inspired imagination to instances and situations in the story of common life; in the modern period Frost and sometimes Eliot have also used this device with much success, Muir asserted in his talk on "Wordsworth: A Return to the Sources," the second of three lectures on the estate of poetry...
Wolfe believed that since physical change is measured in chronological time, then man's glimpses of the inalterable, unchanging and eternal are continually thwarted by his consciousness of these two elements. Rubin points out perceptively that Wolfe's attitude toward those rare and brief moments is closely related to Wordsworth's "intimations of immortality," and like Wordsworth, Wolfe found that as he grew older those moments came upon him less and less. Several times he closely echoes Wordsworth's "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/Where is it now, the glory and the dream...
...royal hope in the one region of prosperous Britain that is visibly and chronically depressed. "Dark, Satanic Mills." Lancashire is not the tourists' England. Forty miles wide by 60 miles long, it is bisected by the river Ribble into a northern rural section that merges into Wordsworth's Lake District, and a southern industrial coalfield choked with so many cities, slums, mining villages and cotton mills, greyhound stadia, slagheaps, canals and railroad sidings that it forms a single complex, something like the Ruhr. South Lanes, as Britons call it, is the most populous region of Britain outside London...
...time of the Civil War, however, the overseers discovered on a tour of the library that "of the Statutes of the United States there is no copy in the library, nor a tolerably good atlas, nor the works of Wordsworth, nor the lives of Judge Story or of Doctor Channing or of the Chancellors of England." Immediately they raised money to buy more books for the library. This was the beginning of the end for Gore Hall...
Divorced. Eva Bartok (real name: Eva Szoke), 25, eye-filling, Hungarian-born cinemasiren (The Assassin) and sometime playmate of Britain's fun-loving Marquess of Milford-Haven; by William Wordsworth, 42, London publicity agent, great-great-grandson of the English poet; after three years of marriage, no children; in London...