Index

A

Abandonment, in Wordsworth's life and art, 5 -6

Abolitionism, 71 -72, 173 nn. 28-30

Abraham, 63 , 65 -66, 70 , 96

Adam (first man), 84 , 137

"Address to My Infant Daughter" (Wordsworth), 119 , 120 -22, 123 , 126

Adeline Mowbray (Opie), 34 -35

"Adonais" (Shelley), 91 , 175 n. 19

Aeneid (Virgil), 79 , 86

"Alastor" (Shelley), 46

Anderson, Robert, 40

Antigone, 123 , 125

Argyle, Duke of, 160

Aristotle, 35

Arnold, Matthew, 65 , 103 , 145

Arthur, King, 135 , 137 , 139 -40, 142 , 144

Audience: "consumption" vs. "reception" by, 30

gender of, 5 , 7 , 29 , 31 , 44 , 51 -52, 142 ;

reform of, 29 -30;

relationship with artist, 29 -31, 41 , 103 -4;

tastes corrupted, 32 , 33 -35, 37 , 42 , 43 ;

tastes vindicated, 42 -43

Auerbach, Nina, 139

Austen, Jane, 45

The Authors of England (Chorley), 143

B

Bacon, Francis, 99

Baillie, Joanna, 7 , 39 ;

on artist/audience relationship, 41 ;

on individual genius, 41 ;

influence of, 40 -41;

on public taste, 42 -43;

sympathetic perspective of, 41 , 152

Ballads, as genre for women, 35

"The Banished Negroes" (Wordsworth), 54 , 77 , 79 , 163 ;

on mysteries of gender and race, 68 , 71 -73, 75 -76;

protest of racial injustice, 68 -76

Barrell, John, 44

Batho, Edith C., 5 , 179 n. 30

Bathsheba (Hardy's character), 45

Battle of Waterloo, 80 , 99

Beatty, Frederika, 112

Beaumont, Lady, 118 , 140

Beaumont, Sir George, 75

Beauty: as consolation for loss, 158 , 161 ;

of domestic poetry, 114 -15;

familiarity of, 18 -19, 20 ;

gendered roles of, 13 , 14 , 19 , 24 -26, 28 ;

idealization of, 26 , 28 ;

and the picturesque, 20 -21;

playful images of, 28 ;

and repudiation of "action" poetry, 104 ;

and sublimity, 6 , 15 -24, 125 , 167 n. 5;

as tempering influence, 47

Benoist, Marie-Guillemine, 73 -74, 75

Bialostosky, Don H., 6

Bible, King James, 32 , 65

Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), 53

Blackburn, Robin, 172 -73

Black people: European stereotypes about, 72 , 173 n. 32;

exclusion from France, 68 -76, 172 n. 24;

paranoia about, 69 , 172 n. 24;

portraiture of, 75 , 174 n. 38

Blackwood's Magazine,3

Blake, William, 4 , 127 , 174 n. 39;

and Milton, 61 , 126 ;

on occupation of

Blake, William (continued) Calais, 56 ;

on relationship between artist and audience, 31

Bloom, Harold, 84

Bonaparte [Buonaparte], Napoleon (emperor of France), 55 ;

exile and return of, 80 , 81 ;

reinstitution of slavery by, 69 ;

worship of, 57 , 59

Book of Job, 17

The Borderers (Wordsworth), 78 , 99 , 177 n. 41 ;

love and politics in, 54 -55;

unconsoled loss in, 105 -6

Bradley, A. C., 54

"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art" (Keats), 61 -62

Brontë, Charlotte, 67 , 131 , 147

Brooke, Dorothea (Eliot's character), 126

"The Brothers" (Wordsworth), 144

Browning, Robert, 140

Bruges convent, 127 -29, 161

Brun, Charles le, 109

"The Buried Life" (Arnold), 144

Burke, Edmund, 6 , 35 ;

fear of revolution, 24 ;

on sublimity and beauty, 13 -14, 17 , 18 , 24 , 166 -67n. 4

Burroughs, Catherine, 169 n. 23

Bush, Barbara, 173 n. 32

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 100 , 103 , 105 , 142 , 147

C

"Calais, August, 1802" (Wordsworth), 57 -58, 170 n. 3

"Calais, August 15th, 1802" (Wordsworth), 171 n. 3

Calais, France: siege and occupation of, 56 ;

Wordsworth's sojourn in, 55 -57

Calais sonnets (Wordsworth), 7 ;

comparison of revolution with youthful indulgence, 57 -58;

disavowal of illegitimate daughter in, 63 -67;

on England's fate, 59 -60, 61 -62;

liberty and restraint in, 58 -59;

public and private thoughts in, 55 -56, 57 -58, 62 , 67 , 68 , 69 -70;

on mysteries of gender and race, 68 , 71 -73, 75 -76

Calvert, Mary, 156

Catullus, 7 , 29 , 36 , 39

Chalmers, Alexander, 40

Chandler, James K., 167 n. 4, 174 n. 1, 176 n. 32

"The Character of the Happy Warrior" (Wordsworth), 38 , 102

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 32

Chorley, Henry F., 143

Christ, Carol T., 140

"Christabel" (Coleridge), 48 , 51

Clarke, Norma, 179 n. 3

Clarkson, Catherine, 118 , 173 n. 29

Clarkson, Thomas, 173 n. 29

Cohen, William B., 172 n. 24

Coleridge, Derwent, 119

Coleridge, Hartley, 113 -15, 117 , 119

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1 , 5 , 33 , 44 , 70 , 127 , 150 , 152 , 166 n. 2;

criticism of The White Doe,104 ;

disaffection with Wordsworth, 52 -53;

exclusion from Lyrical Ballads,48 , 51 ;

as father, 122 ;

as Wordsworth's reader, 51 , 53

Coleridge, Sara, 148 , 154 ;

on Dora Wordsworth, 119 ;

as model of feminine virtue, 131 -33

Comparetti, Alice, 5

"Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais, August, 1802" (Wordsworth), 59 -60, 61 -62, 170 n. 3

Conder, Josiah, 104

Coniston scene (Prelude),15 , 19 -22, 23 , 24 -25, 26 , 47 , 112

The Contours of Masculine Desire (Ross), 115 , 169 n. 21

The Convention of Cintra (Wordsworth), 115

The Corsair (Byron), 105

Cowper, William, 23 , 167 n. 13

Cultivation, definition of, 9 -10

Culture, definition of, 9

Curran, Stuart, 39 , 40 , 169 nn. 20, 24

D

Darbishire, Helen, 5

Daughters: education of, 110 -11;

feminine virtues of, 131 -33;

role of, and mothers, 179 -80n. 5

David, Jacques-Louis, 75

Davidoff, Lenore, 46 , 117

De Quincey, Thomas, 115 , 116

de Selincourt, Ernest, 107

de Vere, Aubrey, 163

Diary (H. C. Robinson), 112 , 162

Dickens, Charles, 35

Domesticity: absence of reverence in, 115 ;

and affection, 49 , 97 -98, 106 -7;

cult of, 116 -17, 167 -68n. 14, 177 n. 7;

emotional hierarchy in, 115 ;

as feminine virtue, 8 , 24 -25, 26 , 28 , 109 -11, 112 , 117 , 130 -33;

as poetic inspiration, 112 -15, 142 -45.

See also Household

"Dora" (Tennyson), 143 , 144

"Dora Creswell" (Mitford), 143

Dora Wordsworth (watercolor by Gillies), 149 (ill.)

Dove Cottage, 13 , 51 -53

Dove Cottage, Town End (watercolor by Dora Wordsworth), 26 , 27 (ill.)

"Dover Beach" (Arnold), 65

Dryden, John, 122

Dugas, Kristine, 93 , 176 n. 27

Duty, vs. passion, 89 -90

Dyce, Alexander, 40

E

East India Company, 44 , 154

Eaves, Morris, 30 -31, 168 n. 4

Ecclesiastical Sketches (Wordsworth), 127 , 145

Eclectic Review,104

Egotistical sublime, the, 12 , 82 , 163 , 166 n. 2

The Egotistical Sublime (Jones), 1 , 4 , 166 n. 2

"The Egyptian Maid" (Wordsworth), 8 , 118 , 130 ;

composition of, 133 -34;

critical reception of, 141 -42;

female power in, 133 -34, 135 , 137 , 139 , 141 , 144 ;

"homey values" of, 143 ;

ineffectual males in, 135 , 139 -40;

male transgression in, 135 -37, 140 -41;

publication of, 134 -35;

symbol of lotus in, 137 -39

Elegiac Sonnets (Smith), 39

Elegy, resolution of loss by, 91 -92

Eliot, George, 89 -90, 164

Elizabeth I (queen of England), 93 , 99 , 102 , 176 n. 34

Ellen (Wordsworth's character), 108 -9, 111

Elliot, Anne (Austen's character), 45

Embroidery, as vehicle of female expression, 95

England: abolition of slavery in, 68 , 70 ;

fate of, 59 -62;

hostilities with France, 55 , 56 ;

racism of, 70

Enquiry (Burke), 17 , 18

"Epithalamion" (Spenser), 59 , 62

Erdman, David, 54 -55, 78

"Essay, Supplementary to the Preface" (Wordsworth), 26 , 143 ;

conception of reader in, 30 , 31 ;

on power of poet, 103 ;

on women poets, 40

An Essay on the Picturesque (U. Price), 20

Euripides, 79 , 88 , 174 n. 5

Eve (first woman), 84 , 85 , 126 , 137

An Evening Walk (Wordsworth), 115

The Excursion (Wordsworth), 6 , 8 ;

on loss, 79 , 88 , 107 -11;

love and politics in, 55 , 78 ;

political conflict in, 99 ;

rebellion and submission in, 92

F

The Faerie Queene (Spenser), 98 , 160

Family relations, 49 , 97 -98, 106 -7;

reflection of society in, 4 -5.

See also Domesticity;  Household

Family Fortunes (Davidoff and Hall), 117

Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), 45

Fashion, gender associations of, 32

Fear, sublimity and, 16 -17, 18

Feminine, the: appropriation by Wordsworth, 2 , 11 , 12 , 82 ;

and corrupted taste, 33 , 37 , 38 ;

and cultivation, 9 -10;

domesticity of, 8 , 24 -25, 26 , 28 , 109 -11, 112 , 117 , 130 -33;

in father/child bond, 49 -50, 121 -22;

and "namby-pamby" poetry, 102 -3;

and nonviolence, 100 -101;

and passive heroism, 176 n. 26;

personal behavior and, 118 , 153 ;

positive associations of, 12 , 54 ;

power and, 133 -34, 135 , 137 , 139 , 141 , 144 ;

race and, 68 , 71 -73, 75 -76;

and repudiation of "action" poetry, 104 -5;

Romantic archetype of, 25 -26;

and self-sacrifice, 93 , 94 -96;

spiritual confinement of, 63 -67

Feminism: and study of Romanticism, 1 -2;

view of African slavery, 75 , 174 n. 39;

and Wordsworth criticism, 2 , 6

Fenwick, Isabella, 117 , 160 ;

friendship with Wordsworth, 3 , 51 , 117 , 158 ;

notes on Wordsworth's poetry, 79 , 85 , 91 , 107 , 127 , 128 , 139 , 152 ;

Dora Wordsworth's letters to, 8 , 148 , 158 , 161 -62

Finch, Anne, 40

Fisher, Aggy, 107 -8, 111

Fisher, Emmie, 130 -31

FitzGerald, Edward, 35 , 143

Fox, Charles James, 49 , 51

France: English weakness compared to, 60 , 61 ;

exclusion of black people by, 68 -76, 172 n. 24;

hostilities with England, 55 , 56

Fraser's Magazine,142

French Revolution, 5 -6, 7 , 24 ;

Wordsworth's views of, 57 -59, 77 -78, 79 , 92

Freud, Sigmund, 84 , 91 , 175 n. 19

Friendship, intimate, between women, 154 -56, 157 , 179 n. 5

"Frost at Midnight" (Coleridge), 122

Fuseli, John Henry, 126

G

Galahad (Wordsworth's character), 135 , 137

Gender: beauty and, 13 , 14 , 19 , 24 -26, 28 ;

and concept of God, 66 ;

conventions subverted, in poetic romance, 133 -34, 135 , 137 , 139 -40, 141 ;

empathy across lines of, 82 ;

and genre

Gender (continued)

experimentation, 24 ;

and heroism, 87 , 89 ;

and intelligence, 107 -8, 130 -33, 148 , 150 ;

legitimacy of rebellion and, 84 -85;

and literary marketplace, 31 ;

and literary taste, 32 , 33 -35, 37 -38;

and literary tradition, 31 -38;

nature and, 11 -12, 22 , 25 -26;

and patriotism, 60 ;

and the picturesque, 26 ;

and race, 68 , 71 -73, 75 -76;

sublimity and, 13 -14, 16 , 24 -26.

See also Feminine, the

Genius: emotional support for, 3 , 51 , 52 ;

and poetic vocation, 32 -33, 41

Genre, experimentation with, 24 , 133 -42

Gift annuals, 31 , 134 -35

Gill, Stephen, 173 n. 35

Gillies, Margaret, 149 (ill.)

Gilligan, Carol, 90 , 170 n. 34

God, gender-mixing of, 66

Gordon, George Huntly, 134

Goslar, Germany, 13

Gospel of Luke, 65 , 109

Gothic literature, and corrupted literary taste, 33 , 34 -35, 37 , 42

Grattan, Thomas Colley, 77 -78

Great Expectations (Dickens), 108

Guide to the Lakes (West), 17

Guide to the Lakes (Wordsworth), 15

H

Hall, Catherine, 46 , 117

Hall, Samuel Carter, 135

Hamilton, William Rowan, 129 -30

Hamlet (Shakespeare's character), 104

Hannibal, 2 , 103

Hardy, Thomas, 45

Harper, George McLean, 5

Hartman, Geoffrey, 81 , 124 , 125

Hawkshead Grammar School, 81

Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 85 -86, 114 (ill.)

Hazlitt, William, 54 , 92 , 166 n. 2

Heilbrun, Carolyn, 45 , 46

Heinzelman, Kurt, 116 -17, 167 -68n. 14, 177 n. 7

Hemans, Felicia, 115 , 142 -43, 147 , 148 , 150 , 164 , 179 n. 1

Heroides (Ovid), 79 , 87 , 175 n. 14

Heroism: active vs. passive, 176 n. 26;

and loss, 87 , 88 -89

Hill, Alan, 157

Historiography, imperfections of, 42

History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven (Whitaker), 94

Hoeveler, Diane Long, 48 , 166 n. 1

Homans, Margaret, 166 n. 1, 170 n. 27, 173 n. 34

Honour, Hugh, 75 , 173 n. 34, 174 n. 38

Household, as place of work, 3 , 116 , 117.

See also Domesticity

Howe, Julia Ward, 148 , 150

Howe, Samuel Gridley, 148

Human nature: and love of the marvellous, 42 -43;

understanding of, in literature, 41

Hutchinson, Joanna, 158 -59

Hutchinson, Mary. See Wordsworth, Mary Hutchinson

Hutchinson, Sara: creative life of, 26 ;

death of, 118 ;

domestic life with Wordsworth, 3 , 25 , 115 , 162 ;

as Wordsworth's reader, 51 , 52

Hutchinson, Tom, 158 -59

I

In A Different Voice (Gilligan), 90

Incest, sublimation of, 124 -25

"Incident at Bruges" (Wordsworth), 128 -29

Industrialization, gender associations of, 33 , 36 -37

Intelligence (of women): constriction by conventional morality, 107 -8;

constriction by domestic ideology, 130 -33, 148 , 150

Intermarriage, racial, forbidding of, 69 , 172 n. 24

Interpreter's Dictionary,65

"Intimations" ode (Wordsworth), 97

"In trellis'd shade" (Wordsworth), 99

"Introductory Discourse" (Baillie), 40 -43, 152

Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides), 79 , 88 , 175 n. 15

Isabel (Wordsworth's character), 49 , 50

Italy, Wordsworth's journey to, 162

"It is a Beauteous Evening" (Wordsworth), 55 , 71 -72, 82 , 96 , 111 , 125 , 170 -71n. 3;

disavowal of illegitimate daughter in, 63 -67, 80 -81, 122 -23

J

Jacobus, Mary, 76

Jardin des Plantes, 173 n. 35

Jeffrey, Francis, 38 , 93 , 102 -3

Jesus Christ, 31 , 95 , 97 , 109

"The Jewish Family" (Wordsworth), 151 -52, 163

Jewsbury, Maria Jane, 119 , 129 , 131 , 142 -43, 148 , 154 -56, 157 , 177 n. 3, 179 nn. 1,3

Joe, Mrs. (Dickens's character), 108

Johnson, Barbara, 125

Johnson, Lee M., 59

Johnson, Samuel, 40 , 84

Jones, John, 1 , 4 , 166 n. 2

Jonson, Ben, 1

Journal, as genre for women, 26

"Journal of a Tour of the Continent 1828" (Dora Wordsworth), 8 -9, 150 -53, 179 n. 1

Journals (Dorothy Wordsworth), 108

K

Kant, Immanuel, 167 n. 4

Kaplan, Cora, 169 n. 14

Keats, George, 163

Keats, John, 12 , 61 -62, 103 , 121 , 137 , 139 , 163 , 166 n. 2

The Keepsake (gift annual), 131 , 133 , 134 -35

Kelley, Theresa M., 47 , 105 , 167 n. 5

Kelly, Joan, 176 n. 34

Ketcham, Carl H., 85 -86, 123

The Keys of Calais (Blake), 56

Keywords (R. Williams), 9

Killigrew, Anne, 122

Klancher, Jon P., 30 , 31 , 168 n. 2

L

Lady of Shalott (Tennyson's character), 129

Lake District, 17 , 19 , 112 , 143 , 151

Lamb, Charles, 104

Lancelot (Tennyson's character), 129

Language, women and, 44 -45

Laodamia (Virgil's and Ovid's character), 85 , 86 , 87 , 141

"Laodamia" (Wordsworth), 6 , 7 -8, 26 , 98 , 107 , 163 ;

autobiographical events surrounding, 80 -82, 91 -92;

empathy across gender lines in, 82 ;

loss in, 79 -80, 81 , 83 -89, 91 -92, 93 ;

passion and duty in, 89 -90;

rebellion and submission in, 78 -79, 84 -85, 90 -91, 92 -93;

revisions of, 79 -80, 86 , 90 -91

Lardner, Dionysius, 40

Lear, King (Shakespeare's character), 123 , 163

"The Leech-Gatherer" (Wordsworth), 52 .

See also "Resolution and Independence" (Wordsworth)

Levinson, Marjorie, 167 n. 2

"Lines Suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone" (Wordsworth), 132 -33

Lipking, Lawrence, 175 n. 9

"A Little Onward" (Wordsworth), 8 , 127 , 163

Liu, Alan, 70

"London, 1802" (Wordsworth), 60 , 61

Loss: anticipation of, by possessive love, 126 -27;

consolation for, 79 , 91 -92, 93 , 96 -98, 105 , 106 , 107 -11, 158 , 159 , 160 -61, 161 -62;

and heroism, 87 , 88 -89;

rebellion against, 78 -80, 81 , 83 -89, 90 -91;

in separation of intimate friends, 154 -56;

submission to, 78 -79, 84 , 88 ;

unconsoled, 105 -6

L'Ouverture, Toussaint, 69 , 70 , 73 , 172 n. 22 , 173 n. 25

Louvre museum, 73 , 173 -74n. 35

Lucy (Wordsworth's character), 65 , 73 , 85 , 96 , 102 , 156

Lucy poems (Wordsworth), 9 , 25 -26, 127

Luke (Wordsworth's character), 48 , 50

"Lycidas" (Milton), 91

Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth), 6 , 40 , 44 , 45 , 78 , 104 ;

audience for, 30 ;

critical reception of, 38 ;

marginalized women of, 47 -48;

revisions of, 48 , 50 -51, 56 .

See also Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth)

M

Macbeth (Shakespeare), 104

McCloy, Shelby T., 172 n. 24

McGhee, Richard D., 175 n. 9

Malory, Sir Thomas, 135

Malthus, Thomas Robert, 173 n. 33

Manning, Peter, 93 , 113 , 115 , 168 n. 3, 171 n. 15, 175 n. 23

Margaret (Wordsworth's character), 82 , 96 , 105

"Mariana" (Tennyson), 91

Marketplace, literary, gender in, 31

Marriage: as metaphor of patriotism, 59 ;

as work relationship, 117

Martin, Robert, 143

Martineau, Harriet, 143 , 148 , 163

Marvell [Marvel], Andrew, 60

Mary Magdalene, 108 , 109

Matilda (Wordsworth's character), 105 -6, 177 n. 41

Mellor, Anne K., 165 n. 1, 167 n. 4, 178 nn. 24, 27

Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 (Wordsworth), 162

Memory, mediation of sublimity by, 18 , 23

Merlin (Wordsworth's character), 135 -37, 138 , 139 , 140 , 141 , 142

Meter [poetry], and sexuality, 36

"Michael" (Wordsworth), 7 , 30 , 111 ;

on father's bond with child, 49 -50, 121 ;

patriarchal values of, 48 -51;

as poem of domesticity, 143 , 144

Middlemarch (Eliot), 126

The Mill—Grasmere (sketch by Hutchinson), 26 , 27 (ill.)

Miller, J. Hillis, 62

The Mill on the Floss (Eliot), 89 -90

Milton, John, 1 , 20 -21, 32 , 33 , 39 , 47 , 54 , 81 , 82 , 96 , 123 , 133 -34, 163 ;

daughters of, 126 ;

drama of rebellion and submission in, 84 -85, 92 ;

heroic stature of, 60 , 61 ;

politicization of sonnet by, 55 , 58 , 73

Milton (Blake), 61 , 126

Mitford, Mary Russell, 143

Mock-heroism, 23 -24

Montgomery, James, 72 , 173 n. 29

Moorman, Mary, 5 , 39 -40, 70 ;

attribution of sonnets to Calais period, 170 -71n. 3;

on Wordsworth's personal and political impulses, 55 -56;

on Wordsworth's relationship to illegitimate child, 63 , 64

More, Hannah, 72

Morning Post,68 , 70 , 73

Mortimer (Wordsworth's character), 106

Mothers of the Novel (Spender), 29

"Mourning and Melancholia" (Freud), 175 n. 19

Moxon, Edward, 143

Mudge, Bradford, 35 , 169 n. 11, 178 n. 21

Mueller, Janel, 171 n. 8

N

Napoleon. See Bonaparte [Buonaparte], Napoleon (emperor of France)

Narration, women and, 45 -46

Narrative (Stedman), 173 n. 32

Natural History (Pliny), 91 , 174 n. 5

Nature: beauty of, 15 , 19 , 20 , 22 ;

community in, 14 ;

gender associations of, 11 -12, 22 , 25 -26;

industrial degradation of, 36 -37;

and the marvellous, 42 -43;

spiritualization of, 101 -2;

sublimity of, 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ;

transformation of beauty by, 21 .

See also Human nature

Newton, Judith, 144 -45

Nina (Wordsworth's character), 133 , 135 , 136 -37, 138 -39, 141

Norton, Emily (Wordsworth's character), 73 , 163 ;

consolation for loss of, 97 , 98 , 106 ;

habitation of spiritualized nature by, 101 -2, 103 ;

maternal influence on, 100 -101;

passive resistance of, 99 ;

self-sacrifice of, 84 , 88 , 93 , 94 -96, 97

Norton, Francis (Wordsworth's character), 94 , 95 , 96 , 98 , 99 , 100

Norton, Richard (Wordsworth's character), 94 -96, 100 -101, 163 , 177 n. 41

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 3d ed., 12 , 167 n. 13

Norton uprising (1569), 93 -96, 99 -102

Novels: and corrupted literary taste, 32 , 33 , 34 -35, 38 , 42 ;

as genre for women writers, 35 ;

response to the natural in, 43

"Nuns Fret Not" (Wordsworth), 67 , 127 , 153

"Nutting" (Wordsworth), 2 , 11 , 140 -41

O

Oedipus, 123

"On his Blindness" (Milton), 96

"On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic" (Wordsworth), 171 n. 3

Ophelia, 124

Opie, Amelia, 34 -35

Our Village (Mitford), 143

Ovid, 79 , 87 , 141

P

Paglia, Camille, 1

Painting: influence on journal-writing, 150 -51;

influence on poetry, 73 -75, 174 n. 37

Paradise Lost (Milton), 20 -21, 61 , 124 , 126 , 133 -34, 137

Parker, Reeve, 177 n. 41

Parker, Rozsika, 95

Passion, emotional, in response to loss, 79 , 81 , 83 -84, 85

Passion, sexual: duty and, 89 -90;

frustration of, by loss, 91 -92, 92 -93;

and literary taste, 34 , 35 , 36 ;

patriotism as, 61 -62;

and poetic meter, 36 ;

and racial stereotypes, 72 , 173 n. 32;

in response to loss, 86 -89;

and revolution, 7 -8, 54 -55, 57 -58, 58 -59, 80 -81;

spiritualization of, 124 -26

Patriotism: gender associations of, 60 ;

and nuptial imagery, 59 , 61 -62;

sexual connotations of, 61 -62

Paulson, Ronald, 18

Peace of Amiens, 56

"Peele Castle" (Wordsworth), 97

Persuasion (Austen), 45

Peter Bell the Third (Shelley), 5

Peterson, M. Jeanne, 117

Petrarch, 55 , 61 , 67 , 140 , 172 n. 19

Picturesque, the: in Dora Wordsworth's journal-writing, 150 -51;

as feminine aesthetic category, 26 ;

and beauty into, 20 -21

"The Picturesque Moment" (M. Price), 26

Pleasure (gratification): grounding in sympathy, 41 ;

and literary taste, 33 , 34 , 35 -36

Pliny, 91 , 174 n. 5

Pocock, J. G. A., 37

Poems by Two Brothers (Tennyson), 179 n. 30

Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (Wordsworth), 123 -26

"The Poetry of Familiarity" (Reiman), 79

Poet(s): appropriation of the feminine by, 2 , 11 ;

and audience, 29 -31, 41 , 103 -4;

contrast with dramatist,  104 -5;

feminization of, 102 -3;

individual genius of, 32 -33, 41 ;

and literary tradition, 31 -38;

male vocation of, 29 , 32 , 34 , 48 ;

professional status of, 43 -44;

women as, 39 ;

women and self-composition of, 45 -48

Poorey, Mary, 169 n. 12

Pope, Alexander, 7 , 29 , 36 , 39 , 167 n. 13

Portrait of a Negress (Benoist), 73 -74, 74 (ill.), 75

"A Prayer for My Daughter" (Yeats), 145

Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth), 7 , 48 , 51 , 58 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 143 ;

on literary tradition of poetry, 31 -38;

neglect of women poets, 39 -40, 54 , 55 ;

on pleasure in poetry, 35 -36;

on professional status of poets, 43 -44;

on public taste, 32 , 33 -35, 37 -38, 42 , 43 ;

on relationship between artist and audience, 29 -30, 31 , 41 ;

revisions of, 56

The Prelude (Wordsworth), 2 , 6 , 24 , 76 , 78 , 81 , 84 , 92 , 109 , 121 , 126 , 141 , 161

Prelude of 1799 (Wordsworth), 6 -7, 47 , 52 , 112 ;

and audience, 29 ;

autobiographical distortion in, 63 ;

and the feminine, 12 , 54 ;

gender associations of nature in, 11 -12, 22 ;

gender conventions of, 13 -14, 16 , 24 -25, 26 , 28 ;

love and politics in, 55 ;

mockheroic in, 23 -24;

narrative of, 13 ;

self-composition of poet in, 45 -46;

solitude and community in, 12 -15;

sublime and beautiful in, 15 -24

Price, Martin, 26

Price, Uvedale, 20 , 26

The Professor (C. Brontë), 147

Prostitution, and literary taste, 35

Protesilaus (Wordsworth's character), 79 , 81 , 83 , 85 , 86 -89, 91 , 92 , 93

Q

Quillinan, Edward, 119 , 129 , 133 , 134 , 155 , 156 -57

Quillinan, Jemima, 132 -33, 153 , 156 -57

Quillinan, Rotha, 156 -57

Quixote, Don (Cervantes's character), 129

Race: European stereotypes about, 72 , 173 n. 32;

and the feminine, 68 , 71 -73, 75 -76;

paranoia about, 69 , 172 n. 24

Ramsay, Mr. (Woolf's character), 117

Read, Herbert, 81 -82

Readers. See Audience

Rebellion: condemnation of, 90 -91;

and loss, 78 -80, 81 , 83 -89, 91 ;

self-sacrifice as alternative to, 93 , 94 -96;

submission and, 78 -79, 84 -85, 92 -93;

transcendence of violence of, 99 -101.

See also Revolution

The Recluse (Wordsworth), 33

Reed, Mark L., 107 , 170 -71n. 3

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke), 18

Reiman, Donald H., 79

Religion: and abolitionist sentiment, 71 -72;

consolation in, 107 -11;

and ideology of domesticity, 145 ;

images of confinement in, 127 -29, 161 ;

mystification of female identity, 63 -67;

sublimation of incest by, 124 -25

Reliques (Percy), 94

"Resolution and Independence" (Wordsworth), 2 , 51 -52, 56 , 141

Revolution: and passion, 7 -8, 54 -55, 57 -58, 58 -59, 80 -81;

and the sublime, 24 ;

Wordsworth's abhorrence of excesses of, 77 -78.

See also Rebellion

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 34 , 37 , 75

Rich, Adrienne, 95

Richardson, Alan, 173 n. 29

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge), 138

"The Rising in the North," 102

Rivers (Wordsworth's character), 78 , 106

Robinson, Henry Crabb, 112 , 116 , 117 , 162 , 163

Robinson, Jeffrey, 130 -31

Romance, subversion of gender conventions of, 133 -34, 135 , 137 , 139 -40, 141

Romanticism: archetypal female of, 25 -26;

and concept of artist-audience relationship, 30 -31;

feminist study of, 1 -2;

and feminization of poets, 103 ;

masculine imagination of, 36

Romanticism and Feminism (Mellor, ed.), 165 n. 1

Romanticism and Gender (Mellor), 165 n. 1

A Room of One's Own (Woolf), 1 , 35 , 39

Rosa, Salvatore, 151

Ross, Marlon, 36 , 39 , 40 , 51 , 115 , 169 nn. 21, 24

Ruddick, Sara, 101

"The Ruined Cottage" (Wordsworth), 21 , 82 , 96 , 105

Rydal Mount, 25 , 47 , 112 -13, 113 (ill.), 116 -17, 145 , 148 , 167 -68n. 14

S

Samson Agonistes (Milton), 123 , 126

Sappho, 40

Scenes and Hymns of Life (Hemans), 147 , 179 n. 1

Scott, Sir Walter, 35 , 100 , 101 , 105 , 142 , 147

Self-sacrifice: in choice of duty over passion, 89 -90;

and ideal of feminine spirituality, 93 , 94 -96

"September 1, 1802" (Wordsworth), 71 -72

Sexuality. See Gender;  Passion, sexual

Sexual Personae (Paglia), 1

Shakespeare, William, 32 , 33 , 39 , 126

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 5 , 46 , 78 , 91 , 103

"She was a Phantom of Delight" (Wordsworth), 26

Shirley (C. Brontë), 67

Simpson, David, 37 , 44 , 84 , 175 n. 11

Sketch, as genre for women, 26

Slavery: abolition of, 68 , 69 , 70 , 75 ;

and oppression of women, 75 , 174 n. 39;

reinstitution of, 69 , 75

"A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" (Wordsworth), 96

Smith, Charlotte, 39 -40

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, 179 -80n. 5

Snyder, William, 168 n. 17

Solitary's story (Wordsworth): love and politics in, 55 , 78 ;

rebellion and submission in, 88 , 92

Solitude, movement toward community from, 12 -15

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Blake), 127

Sonnet: discipline of form of, 58 ;

techniques of distancing in, 64 , 65 , 67 , 75 ;

as vehicle for personal and political expression, 55

"Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress" (Wordsworth), 39 , 55

Southey, Edith, 129 , 131 -33, 145 , 154

Southey, Robert, 131 , 133

Specimens of the British Poetesses (Dyce, ed.), 40

Spender, Dale, 29

Spenser, Edmund, 59 , 62 , 97 , 98

Spiegelman, Willard, 176 n. 26

The Spirit of the Age (Hazlitt), 54

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 166 n. 1

Stedman, John, 173 n. 32

"Strange fits of passion" (Wordsworth), 127 , 156

Study of a Black Man (Reynolds), 75

"The Sublime and the Beautiful" (Wordsworth), 11 , 18 -19

Sublimity: and beauty, 6 , 15 -24, 125 , 167 n. 5;

and dramatic art, 105 ;

egotistical, 12 , 82 , 163 , 166 n.  2;

and fear, 16 -17, 18 ;

female, 25 , 168 n. 15;

gendered roles of, 13 -14, 16 , 24 -26;

mediation by memory, 18 , 23 ;

and revolution, 24 ;

solitude and, 12 -15

Submission: and feminine spirituality, 93 , 94 -96;

rebellion and, 78 -79, 84 -85, 92 -93;

as response to loss, 78 -79, 84 , 88

The Subversive Stitch (Ro. Parker), 95

"Surprized by Joy" (Wordsworth), 66 , 122 , 126

T

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 91 , 103 , 129 , 140 , 142 , 143 -44

"Three Years She Grew" (Wordsworth), 25 -26, 85

"Timbuctoo" (Tennyson), 179 n. 30

Time, transformation of beauty by, 20 -21

Tintern Abbey: Dora Wordsworth's visit to, 148 , 158 , 160 , 161 -62, 164 ;

Mary Wordsworth's visit to, 158 -59

"Tintern Abbey" (Wordsworth), 8 -9, 12 , 21 , 64 , 81 , 93 , 118 , 121 , 124 ;

audience for, 5 , 7 , 30 , 44 ;

consolation of loss in, 97 , 158 , 159 , 160 -61;

exclusion of female perspective from, 25 ;

lost narrative of, 44 -48, 85 ;

as narrative of loss and redemption, 45 -48;

sister's role in, 1 , 3 , 5 , 25 , 44 -48, 144 -45, 158 , 159 , 160 -61

"To a Friend, Composed near Calais" (Wordsworth), 57 , 171 n. 3

To the Lighthouse (Woolf), 112

"To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew" (Dryden), 122

"To Toussaint L'Ouverture" (Wordsworth), 73 , 171 n. 3, 172 n. 22

Townley Marbles (sculpture), 139

"To Wordsworth" (Hemans), 142

"The Triad" (Wordsworth), 8 , 26 , 28 , 118 , 134 , 150 ;

on feminine virtue, 131 -33;

as poem of domesticity, 144 , 145

Trible, Phyllis, 66

Trilling, Lionel, 176 n. 26

Tulliver, Maggie (Eliot's character), 89 -90

U

Ullswater scene (Prelude),15 -18, 19 , 22 , 23

Una (Spenser's character), 97 -98

Urania (Shelley's character), 91

V

Vallon, Annette, 7 ;

introduction to Mary Wordsworth, 73 , 86 ;

"shadows" of, 70 , 76 , 86 ;

Wordsworth's abandonment of, 5 -6, 55 , 56 , 63 , 67 ;

Wordsworth's attachment to, as youthful indulgence, 57 -58, 59 , 80 -81;

Wordsworth's correspondence with, 66

Vallon, Caroline (Wordsworth's illegitimate daughter), 6 , 55 , 56 , 57 -58, 59 , 70 , 82 , 96 , 111 , 118 ;

marriage of, 80 , 81 ;

Wordsworth's correspondence with, 66 ;

Wordsworth's disavowal of, 62 -67, 80 -81, 122 -23

"Vaudracour and Julia" (Wordsworth), 55 , 63

Vicar, the (Wordsworth's character), 99 , 107 , 108 -9, 110

Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft), 32 , 34 , 169 n. 14, 174 n. 39

Virgil, 85 , 86 , 87 , 141 , 174 n. 5

Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Blake), 174 n. 39

Vogler, Thomas A., 166 n. 2

W

"Weak is the will of man" (Wordsworth), 99

West, Thomas, 17

Westall, William, 113 (ill.)

Whitaker, Thomas, 94 , 102

The White Doe of Rylstone (Wordsworth), 5 , 7 , 8 , 73 , 134 , 163 ;

conventional action absent from, 104 -5;

critical reception of, 93 , 102 -3;

domestic imagery of, 97 -98, 106 -7, 111 ;

feminine spirituality in, 93 , 94 -96;

feminization of sources for, 93 -94;

historical women absent from, 102 ;

loss in, 84 , 88 , 96 -98, 105 , 106 , 156 ;

rebellion and submission in, 78 -79;

spiritualization of nature in, 101 -2;

transcendence of violence in, 99 -101;

Wordsworth's reluctance to publish, 93 , 102 , 103 -4, 105

Williams, Helen Maria, 40 , 46

Williams, Raymond, 9

William Wordsworth of Rydal Mount (Beatty), 112

"With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh" (Wordsworth), 140

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 4 , 32 , 34 , 46 , 107 , 169 n. 14, 174 n. 39

Woman and the Demon (Auerbach), 139

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Woolf, Virginia, 1 , 35 , 39 , 45 , 112 , 117

Wordsworth, Catharine, 66 , 79 , 97 , 118 , 122 , 126 , 159

Wordsworth, Christopher, 44 , 85

Wordsworth, Dora, 4 , 8 -9, 25 , 51 , 116 ;

creative life of, 26 , 119 ;

death of, 162 -63;

devotion to father, 119 , 121 -22, 126 ;

domestic life, 3 , 113 , 115 , 130 , 145 , 148 ;

empathetic perspective of, 151 , 152 -53;

gender ideology of, 148 , 150 ;

at Tintern Abbey, 158 , 160 , 161 -62, 164 ;

father's feelings for, 117 -18, 119 -20, 123 -27, 129 -30, 155 -56;

as inspiration for poetic romance, 133 , 134 ;

intimate friendships with women, 154 -56, 157 ;

loneliness of, 154 -55, 156 ;

marriage of, 119 , 130 , 156 -58;

as model of feminine virtue, 131 -33;

as observer, 150 -53;

portrayal of, as infant, 120 -22, 123 ;

strains in relationship with father, 119 , 127 -29, 156 , 157 -58, 163 ;

temperament of, 118 -19, 153

Wordsworth, Dorothy, 34 -35, 55 , 63 , 70 , 84 , 108 , 173 n. 29;

creative life of, 26 ;

decline of, 118 , 129 , 160 -61;

domestic life, 3 , 13 , 25 , 162 ;

gender ideology of, 131 , 148 ;

"lost narrative" of, 44 -48, 85 ;

and marriage of Caroline Vallon, 80 ;

on niece Dora, 118 , 119 , 153 ;

in Paris (1820), 73 , 173 -74n. 35;

and publication of The White Doe,103 -4;

return from Calais, 67 -68, 76 ;

role in "Tintern Abbey," 1 , 3 , 5 , 25 , 44 -48, 144 -45, 158 , 159 , 160 -61;

sojourn in Calais, 55 , 56 -57, 59 , 64 -65;

on William's illegitimate daughter, 64 -65;

as William's reader, 51 , 52 , 164

Wordsworth, John, 44 , 97

Wordsworth, Mary Hutchinson, 2 , 3 , 7 , 25 , 44 , 118 , 119 , 133 , 134 , 160 ;

domestic life with William, 97 -98, 115 , 116 , 117 , 162 ;

introduction to Vallon, 73 , 86 ;

mourning of loss by, 79 , 97 , 98 , 159 ;

in Paris (1820), 73 , 173 n. 35;

visit to Tintern Abbey, 158 -59;

William's impending

Wordsworth, Mary Hutchinson (continued)

marriage to, 55 , 56 , 58 -59, 62 , 70 , 80 ;

William's passion for, 77 , 81 ;

as William's reader, 51 , 52 ;

and writing of "Laodamia," 85 -86

Wordsworth, Richard, 44 , 176 n. 29

Wordsworth, Susan, 148

Wordsworth, Thomas, 79 , 97

Wordsworth, William: affair with Vallon, 5 -6, 55 , 56 , 57 -58, 59 , 63 , 67 , 80 -81;

blurring of public and private events by, 54 , 55 -56, 57 -58, 62 , 67 , 68 , 69 -70;

concern with professional status, 43 -44;

contradictory character of, 163 -64;

disavowal of illegitimate daughter, 62 -67, 80 -81, 122 -23;

domestic poetry of, 112 -15, 142 -45;

domestic relations of, 2 , 3 , 25 , 51 -53, 97 -98, 115 -17, 145 , 148 ;

on Dora's marriage, 130 , 157 -58;

emotional bond with Dora, 117 -20, 121 -22, 123 -27, 129 -30, 155 -56;

on England's fate, 59 -62;

fear of dependency, 123 -24;

and the feminine, 2 , 11 , 12 , 54 , 82 ;

feminist criticism of, 2 , 6 ;

on gender and race, 68 , 71 -73, 75 -76;

gender associations of nature for, 11 -12, 22 , 25 -26;

gender ideology of, 4 -5, 7 , 8 , 10 , 24 -26, 28 , 48 -51, 112 , 130 -33, 148 ;

idealization of otherness by, 151 -52, 163 ;

on individual genius, 32 -33, 41 ;

interest in painting, 75 , 174 n. 37;

on liberty and restraint, 58 -59;

on literary tradition of poetry, 31 -38;

mourning of loss by, 79 , 81 , 92 , 97 , 98 , 159 ;

movement from solitude to community, 12 -15;

passion for Mary, 77 , 81 ;

on pleasure in poetry, 35 -36;

political conservatism of, 77 -78;

portrayal of Dora as infant, 120 -22, 123 ;

portrayal of the family by, 4 -5;

process of revision of, 54 , 116 ;

protest against racial injustice, 68 -76;

on public taste, 32 , 33 -35, 37 -38, 42 , 43 ;

on rebellion and submission, 78 -79, 84 -85, 92 -93;

redefinition of career of, 4 ;

on relationship between artist and audience, 29 -31, 41 , 103 -4;

relationship of sublimity and beauty for, 6 , 15 -24, 167 n. 5;

repudiation of "action" poetry, 104 -5;

on revolution, 7 -8, 54 -55, 57 -58, 58 -59, 77 -78, 80 -81;

sojourn in Calais, 55 -57;

strains in relationship with Dora, 119 , 127 -29, 156 , 157 -58, 163 ;

study of the classics, 81 ;

tour of Italy (1837), 162 ;

travels with Dora, 127 -29, 150 ;

women as audience for, 5 , 7 , 29 , 44 , 51 -53, 142 ;

women and career of, 3 , 51 , 52 , 162 -63, 164 ;

women and self-composition of, 45 -48;

and women poets, 39 -40, 54 , 55 .

See also individual works

"Wordsworth as Heartsworth" (Erdman), 54 -55, 78

"Wordsworth at St. Bees: Scandals, Sisterhoods, and Wordsworth's Later Poetry" (Manning), 113

Wordsworth Library, 3 -4, 129 , 156

Wordsworth on Helvellyn (painting by Haydon), 114 (ill.)

Wordsworth's Revisionary Aesthetics (Kelley), 105

Writing a Woman's Life (Heilbrun), 45

Wye Valley, 47 -48, 158 -59, 160 , 161

Y

Yarrow Revisited (Wordsworth), 113 -15, 133 , 143 , 144

Yearsley, Anne, 72

Yeats, William Butler, 145