Talk:William Wordsworth

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[edit] Grammar

Requesting Grammatical cleanup. Very stilted. --ISpyFace 09:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Editing

This article needs expansion and editing. I've started the work, but I'm an expert on Russian poety, not English... Foremost, it needs a TOC at the head. Also, popular reception of W -- initially very negative, but by the end of his life he'd become a celebrity (tour groups, even!). (Unsigned comment by User:Michaeladenner on 8 December 2005)

[edit] Off Topic

Could someone please recommend me a complete edition of Wordsworth's works? I know a hardcover one, apparently from Oxford, in eight volumes, but I'm looking for a cheaper and perhaps with more recent editing. If someone knows of other good editions of the rest of the romantics, I'd also like to know. Thanks. 200.141.237.165 15:06, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Just a reminder: "please keep discussions on talk pages on the topic of how to improve the associated article." Someone might be able to answer your questions at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities. --Mrwojo 01:12, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Influences

I have added Charlotte Smith to the list of influences. Female sonneteers had been reintroducing the sonnet, an unpopular form in the C18th, prior to Wordsworth's own appropriation of the mode. Smith was one with whom he was directly acquainted (according to 'Romantic Literature', Jennifer Breen and Mary Noble, p. 80).74.66.231.211 (talk) 23:19, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect

Just a note that searching for "Wordsworth" gives you Wordsworth and makes you redirect to William Wordsworth. I'm too much of a newbie to know whether this ought to be changed, but it seems a little ridiculous. --Toastedcheese 23:50, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I have fixed the problem regarding the redirect of the Wordsworth page to William Wordsworth.. Now if you type Wordsworth, it will redirect to William Wordsworth.. I have also added a disambiguation page for the other uses of wordsworth --Rev.bayes 18:23, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural depictions of William Wordsworth

I've started an approach that may apply to Wikipedia's Core Biography articles: creating a branching list page based on in popular culture information. I started that last year while I raised Joan of Arc to featured article when I created Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc, which has become a featured list. Recently I also created Cultural depictions of Alexander the Great out of material that had been deleted from the biography article. Since cultural references sometimes get deleted without discussion, I'd like to suggest this approach as a model for the editors here. Regards, Durova 16:33, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criticisms

I don't have enough knowledge on Wikipedia to enter this, but perhaps someone could revamp this page to include many of the literary criticisms aimed at his work from both scholars and students alike. Thanks, Andrew Lawton andrew.lawton@hotmail.com

[edit] Lucy Poems

The 'Lucy' Poems were performed as a song by The Divine Comedy (band), should this be added to the article? It is such a beautiful way of representing the poetry of Wordsworth maybe it is worthy of inclusion? ny156uk 21:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anosmic

Apparently he had no sense of smell. - Kittybrewster 23:07, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

I've briefly semiprotected the page to deal with vandalism - there was a lot of stuff not getting properly caught, and this should hopefully calm it down for a bit. Shimgray | talk | 17:01, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] birthplace

where was he born? his key facts say he was born in Cockermouth but the text says he was born in Cumberland BRAD 18:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Hello. I was searching "wordsworth early poetry" and the text that shows up on Google refers to WW's masterpiece "The Penis." wow I have no idea how to fix this but wanted to alert someone. Thanks. 69.247.137.50 18:35, 21 April 2007 (UTC)Jeannie

[edit] Birthplace

i dont think he actually was born in cockermouth, he moved there later. For some reason i think he may have been born in lorton or somewhere similar, although im not sure...not really any help there sorry

Oxford Dictionary of National Biog says Cockermouth. And, in reply to BRAD above, Cockermouth is in Cumberland (now in Cumbria). PamD 07:28, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Additionally, I'm betting that "Nutting in Ambers Mouth" is not in fact one of Wordsworth's classic poems. I'm going to delete it if I can figure it out. I think he did have a poem called "Nutting" so I'll try to fix that. 20 May 2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.198.126.75 (talk • contribs).

[edit] "I wondered lonely as a cow"

Should someone remove that "cow" piece of trivia? It reeks of urban legend, and seems to be untterly implausible when you consider how the image of the cloud is central to the poem - as it's unsourced it seems like it should go.

82.21.73.241 01:57, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey everyone! I just deleted a phrase on here that said "Worsworth is a mother fucking bitch" or something like that. Would the person who keeps vandalizing this page stop corrupting Wikipedia! Thankyou! :-)