Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 2 August 1828
Anvers (Antwerp, we call it): 2nd August (1828).
‘My dear Rogers,—A note will suffice to tell you that here we are
after a long and pleasant ramble upon the Rhine and through Holland and the
Netherlands. On Tuesday I hope to be in London; shall drive to my old quarters
in Bryanston Street, intending to stay not more than three days. Should be
happy to meet you again.
‘Farewell, with kind regards from my daughter, who is [in] the room where I write,
‘Ever yours,
Dora Quillinan [née Wordsworth] (1804-1847)
The daughter of William Wordsworth who in 1841 married the poet Edward Quillinan despite
her father's concerns about his debts.
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
English poet, banker, and aesthete, author of the ever-popular
Pleasures of Memory (1792),
Columbus (1810),
Jaqueline (1814), and
Italy (1822-28).
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
With Coleridge, author of
Lyrical Ballads (1798), Wordsworth
survived his early unpopularity to succeed Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843.
