Born on this day – William Wordsworth:

William Wordsworth

Writer

April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850

Credits:

A Letter to A Friend of Robert Burns (1816); An Evening Walk (1793); Descriptive Sketches (1793); Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822); Lyrical Ballads (1798); Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth (1820); Peter Bell (1819); Poems (1807); Poems (1815); Poems of Wordsworth (1879); Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth (1831); Thanksgiving Ode (1816); The Cornell Wordsworth (1975); The Excursion (1849); The Poems of William Wordsworth (1845); The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (various editions 1824–1854); The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850 (1979); The Prelude, Or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1850); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1876); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1974); The Recluse (1888); The River Duddon (1820); The Sonnets of William Wordsworth (1838); The Waggoner (1819); The White Doe of Rylstone: or The Fate of the Nortons (1815); Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland (1818); William Wordsworth: Selected Poems and Prefaces (1965); William Wordsworth: The Poems (1981); Wordsworth's Literary Criticism (1905).

Recommended reading - The League of Gentlemen, by John Boland (1958):

The League of Gentlemen

By John Boland.

ASIN: B000WH36FM
Published by Beacon Envoy.
Published 1958.
Mass Market Paperback.

The basis of the movie The League of Gentlemen (1960), directed by Basil Dearden.

Recommended reading - William Wordsworth Selected Poems, by William Wordsworth (2004):

William Wordsworth Selected Poems

By William Wordsworth.

Introduced by Stephen Gill.
Published by Penguin Classics.
First Edition.
First published 2004.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0140424423
ISBN-13: 978-0140424423

Description:

One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', 'Tintern Abbey', 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', 'Lucy Gray', and 'Michael'. Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworth's astonishing range and power, but the sustained and coherent vision that informed his work.

A Night-Piece, poem by William Wordsworth:

A Night-Piece

Poem by William Wordsworth.

The sky is overcast
With a continuous cloud of texture close,
Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon,
Which through that veil is indistinctly seen,
A dull, contracted circle, yielding light
So feebly spread, that not a shadow falls,
Chequering the ground – from rock, plant, tree, or tower.
At length a pleasant instantaneous gleam
Startles the pensive traveller while he treads
His lonesome path, with unobserving eye
Bent earthwards; he looks up – the clouds are split
Asunder, – and above his head he sees
The clear Moon, and the glory of the heavens.
There, in a black-blue vault she sails along,
Followed by multitudes of stars, that, small
And sharp, and bright, along the dark abyss
Drive as she drives: how fast they wheel away,
Yet vanish not! – the wind is in the tree,
But they are silent; – still they roll along
Immeasurably distant; and the vault,
Built round by those white clouds, enormous clouds,
Still deepens its unfathomable depth.
At length the Vision closes; and the mind,
Not undisturbed by the delight it feels,
Which slowly settles into peaceful calm,
Is left to muse upon the solemn scene.

Recommended reading:

William Wordsworth Selected Poems

Video by Jack Kost.
2025.

Photograph:

Night Light (2023), by Jack Kost.

Sound effect credit:

Wind Gusts Late Autumn

by freesound_community
from Pixabay.

Carson McCullers, on writing:

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

- Carson McCullers.

On this day in television history - Justified (2011):

Justified

Season 2. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: Brother’s Keeper.

Released April 6, 2011.

Directed by Tony Goldwyn.

Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Leonard, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Kaitlyn Dever, Brad William Henke, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Mark Colson, Peter Murnik, Rebecca Creskoff, Matthew Fahey, Ryan Kiser, Laura Meadows, Jared A. Robinson, Jon Schueler.

On this day in television history - Justified (2010):

Justified

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Long in the Tooth.

Released April 6, 2010.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Chris Provenzano and Wendy Calhoun.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Alan Ruck, Michele Nordin, Lance Barber, Brian Goodman, Brandon Keener, David Warshofsky, Clarence Williams III, Carla Jimenez, Chalo González, Eddie Zamora, Rico E. Anderson, Bert Belasco, Kelly Gullett, Ivo Nandi, Jennifer Lutheran, Alejandro Furth, Daniela Aflalo, Jeffrey Jones.