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Wrangham was born on 11 June 1769 at Raysthorpe, near Malton, Yorkshire, the son of George Wrangham (1741-1791), a prosperous farmer, and his wife Ann Fallowfield, who died in childbirth. He attended Hull Grammar School and took honours at Cambridge, studying first at Magdalene College and afterwards at Trinity Hall .
Wordsworth himself wrote ahead to soften the thoughts of The Critical Review, hoping his friend Francis Wrangham would push for a softer approach. He succeeded in preventing a known enemy from writing the review, but it did not help; as Wordsworth himself said, it was a case of, "Out of the frying pan, into the fire".
Wordsworth himself wrote ahead to soften the thoughts of The Critical Review, hoping his friend Wrangham would push a softer approach. He succeeded in preventing a known enemy from writing the review, but it didn't help; as Wordsworth himself said, it was a case of "Out of the frying pan, into the fire".
[A 4] Yet Wordsworth structured the poems so that they are not about any one person who has died; instead they were written about a figure representing the poet's lost inspiration. Lucy is Wordsworth's inspiration, and the poems as a whole are, according to Wordsworth biographer Kenneth Johnston, "invocations to a Muse feared to be dead". [ 35 ]
It has been argued that Wordsworth was induced to write a historical poem by observing the success of Walter Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel.Wordsworth found in Thomas Whitaker's The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven the legend of a white doe which, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, continued to make a weekly pilgrimage from Rylstone to Bolton Abbey. [1]
[1] [2] The poem has been referred to as "a short sequel" to "The Old Cumberland Beggar", and Wordsworth himself regarded it as "an overflowing" of it. [3] [4] The form of the poem has been described as "a sonnet-like poem in two acts". [5] It consists of one stanza written in blank verse. [6] The poem describes an old man and the journey he is on.
"Is then the final page before me spread," Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 1822 To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth (I) 1820 "The Minstrels played their Christmas tune" Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets 1820 Not envying Latian shades—if yet they throw (II) 1820 "Not envying Latian shades—if yet they throw"
Digby Cayley Wrangham (1805-1863), English barrister and politician Francis Wrangham (1769-1842), English author and translator Richard Wrangham (born 1948), British primatologist