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Washington Allston, an early U. S. cosmopolitan who spent four years in Rome, became acquainted with Wordsworth and Coleridge, painted powerful romantic landscapes, gradually atrophied in Boston...
...Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared in 1914. Despite its encyclopedic scope, Bartlett's left out Hawthorne, Melville, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, included many forgotten patriots of the Revolutionary War, many forgotten minor poets. Cutting down these, reducing the quotations from Byron and Wordsworth, Editors Morley and Everett have brought in moderns from Archibald MacLeish to William Butler Yeats. Shakespeare still leads with 77 of the 1,126 pages of quotations, the Bible is second with 32 pages...
There is no newspaper in America that can compare with the London Morning Post. Oldest daily in the British Empire, it was established three years before the American Revolution. Coleridge, Lamb and Wordsworth were among its writers. Imperialist and conservative, it snorted bitterly against any change even in its own party. Alongside this crusty diehard, the New York Herald Tribune might easily be mistaken for the Communist Daily Worker. Sad was the day in plush British drawing rooms when the Morning Post began to limp. After the Depression it reduced its price from twopence to the vulgar level...
Embryonic attempts of Tennyson, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, and Kilpling have been placed on exhibition in the Poetry Room...
...Dryden in 1670 was given that official title by Charles II, with a salary of ?300, a butt of Canary wine. Though the emolument has varied with the years (Tennyson's pay was cut by three-quarters) most royal rhymesters have risen to the occasion. Outstanding exception was Wordsworth, who never produced a line to order because the spirit never moved him at the right moment. One of the conscientious was Lord Tennyson who, according to Carlyle, sat "on a dungheap amid innumerable dead dogs" (i.e., buried himself in Homer and Virgil) during the early years of his laureateship...