Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad

Bible, Christianity, cosmogony, Culture & Ethics, Das Heilige, earth, Faith & Science, Heaven, Hell, hierophany, Matthew Arnold, Mircea Eliade, poetry, Ralph Waldo Emerson, romanticism, Rudolf Otto, subconscious, The Idea of the Holy, The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)
In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth. Source
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Wordsworth: The Sage of the Lakes

Alexander Pope, bestseller, Britons, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Dove Cottage, F. W. H. Myers, Faith & Science, George Eliot, Guide to the Lakes, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, Lake District, nature, poets, Queen Victoria, railway, Stopford Brooke, tourists, transcendence, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)
Wordsworth gave rise not just to a minority group of high-culture admirers but to a popular revolution in ordinary people’s thinking. Source
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