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...constitution. He was well under way with a promising period of reconstruction when Napoleon took time to consider his refractory colonies. A swift intelligent military campaign subdued Toussaint's able generals. Toussaint himself was taken unscrupulously by ruse, and imprisoned in France-to be mourned in lines by Wordsworth...
...Wordsworth's Sounets", Professor Lowes, New Fogg Museum...
...until 1670, two years after Sir William's death, that Dryden became the first to hold the official title of Poet Laureate, an appointment that has continued to the present day. Poets Laureate since Dryden: Shadwell, Tate, Rowe, Eusden, Cibber, Whitehead, Warton, Pye, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Austin, Bridges...
...powerful, sensitive boy who mixed baseball and Emerson, swimming and Wordsworth. He read Plotinus before he went to Harvard and his spiritual life always returned to a silent noon in the library at Iowa City when, aged 16, ecstasy first came upon him. Thereafter he was a "panarchist...
...Coleridge letters are inscribed to one Mr. Tobin, and are full of gossip about the doings of Wordsworth and the writer. Wordsworth's health is referred to as "but so-so", while Hartley Coleridge, later a poet himself, who was about 14 years old at this time, is styled "a young animal." In both manuscripts, which are quite legible, the signature of the writer is well-preserved...