William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… Though his appointment to a tax-collecting profession was met with the disapproval of his poetic peers, such as Byron , 8 it secured much needed financial support for his growing family. It also brought him closer to Lord Lonsdale, an important figure of Toryism in the north-west of England. In the general election of 1818, when the … University in 1839. His fame was sealed in 1843 when he was appointed Poet Laureate. 8 . George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. 5: Don Juan, ed. Jerome J. McGann (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), …
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