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William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]

… Victorian sage, but also the events and changes that shaped his generation, and ultimately the British nation. At once a poet of the Lake District and, from 1843 onwards, the Poet Laureate, Wordsworth explored the concept of sociability on both local and national levels. His engagement with …

Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]

… Abstract As the most celebrated British poet of the early eighteenth century, Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was a highly influential figure in the formation and … for polite sociability as it was generally understood by his contemporaries. People > Art and Literature Keywords poetry Friendship Scriblerus Club Correspondence Literary celebrity Enmity Both in financial terms and in the scale of … by the era’s legal restrictions on non-Anglicans. He could not, for instance, be considered for the post of poet laureate, despite his crucial role in informing the literary tastes and stylistic conventions of his time. His poetry …