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“... and a quaker’. In becoming a royal servant Apsley followed his father’s calling; his sister Lucy clung fast to the Parliamentarian loyalties of the St Johns. Her husband, John Hutchinson, was one of the signatories of the death warrant of Charles I. Apsley was no poet; his sister, who is best known for her memoir of ...”

“... typically – he does not seem to have got beyond the first fifty lines. His senior contemporary Lucy Hutchinson translated all six books, which she then suppressed. What was it in the great Epicurean that fascinated both the lecherous peer and the very Puritan wife of a regicide? A complete edition of Rochester’s letters thus arouses ...”

“... masculine concerns of national politics. They will await the more eagerly his forthcoming study of Lucy Hutchinson, who, not content with protecting her regicide husband from the scaffold, wrote her own Creation epic. The case for the republican conscience resounds most eloquently in the impressive coda to this book, in which Norbrook vindicates the ...”

“... of Oliver Cromwell’s widow – was published only to be lampooned, and another Civil War widow, Lucy Hutchinson, was constrained to complain of the ‘court caterpillars’ who could present her husband as a life-denier in spite of his affection for music and dancing and his ‘rule of temperance in meat, drink, apparel and all those things that may be ...”

“... focus on Marvell’s ‘Horatian Ode’, ‘Tom May’s Death’, with perhaps some Waller, Lucy Hutchinson or Milton’s prose thrown in, and a dash of ‘The Character of Holland’. Out goes the Marvell of ‘The Garden’, or the ‘Acquisition of Love’, even the tenderly concealed political agonies of ‘The Nymph Complaining for the Death ...”

“... are minor compensations, of course, such as Eliot’s dancing. ‘One day,’ Vivien urges Mary Hutchinson, ‘you really must try Tom’s Negro rag-time. I know you’d love it.’The marmoreal lustre of our received image of Eliot is dimmed by this unrelenting catalogue of blunders. The result contradicts the glossier image of Eliot presented by the ...”

“... have to employ the straight talk of nonfiction. But then she won’t get her two million dollars. Hutchinson have laid the ground for Jeremy Leven’s Creator with a series of teasing advertisements stating: ‘Harry Wolper has kept his wife in a jar for 30 years.’ Creator is a zany book with two main narrative threads. The ostensible hero is a biologist ...”

“... emerging in full glory in 1800 in ‘Nutting’, ‘Michael’ and the two groups known as the ‘Lucy’ and ‘Matthew’ poems. The essential Wordworth shouldn’t be seen as a recorder of external nature but as a poet of epiphanies, or moments of intense pleasure in animal life which are ‘phenomenologically simple’ and almost untenable. Thus ...”

“... by the French War until the Peace of Amiens in 1803 (by which time the poet was engaged to Mary Hutchinson). Their child was baptised in Orleans Cathedral on 15 December 1792, and it is significant that she took her father’s name – or something like it: Anne-Caroline Wordswodsth. Annette’s two surviving letters (confiscated by the French police in ...”

“... address Dorothy: ‘Tintern Abbey’ (where she is certainly present) and ‘Nutting’ and the Lucy poems (where the discovery of his intense feelings for her rather depends on the reader’s prior decision to find them). Barker sticks with the evidence of journals and correspondence, though some of this testimony – Wordsworth placing his wife’s ...”