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Wordsworth's eldest son: John Wordsworth and the intimations ode.

John Wordsworth (1803-1875), the poet's eldest son, paled by comparison with his siblings, his extended family, and the children of his parents' friends. Three of his cousins, sons of William's younger brother Christopher, earned Cambridge fellowships and prizes, and became headmasters and bishops. John was never more than a parish priest. Hartley Coleridge, who once called John "laborious as an ass," (LHC 84) for all his failings had charisma and talent, and his younger brother Derwent was once described by Dean Stanley as "the greatest master of language in England" (Hinton 284). John was equally overshadowed by the girls; the "brilliant and breathtaking" Sara Coleridge ...

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