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:I'd like to have a go at this. [[User:Jeffrey Side|Jeffrey Side]] 15:34, 25 September 2010 (UTC) | :I'd like to have a go at this. [[User:Jeffrey Side|Jeffrey Side]] 15:34, 25 September 2010 (UTC) | ||
::I've added a bibliography. [[User:Jeffrey Side|Jeffrey Side]] 17:42, 25 September 2010 (UTC) | |||
== No sinecure == | |||
I have changed the word "sinecure" to "post". Gill's biography asserts that it was not a sinecure. I don't know whether it is worth adding that both Shelley and Browning, associating his change of political views with his acceptance of the post, wrote poems which were simultaneously appreciative and condemnatory. Again, it might be mentioned that he never entirely went back on his early positive views of the French Revolution. But that might be giving too much weight to a certain aspect of his life and work. --[[User:Martin Wyatt|Martin Wyatt]] 19:28, 20 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Approval? == | |||
I think I have now done all the work on this article that I am going to do, making some additions and minor corrections, and adding references. Parts of the article remain unreferenced. I don't know whether it might be considered appropriate for approval. Since it seems to be the fashion to make comparisons with Wikipedia, I will say that it is better organised than the Wikipedia equivalent. --[[User:Martin Wyatt|Martin Wyatt]] ([[User talk:Martin Wyatt|talk]]) 19:53, 12 September 2018 (UTC) | |||
==Another reference?== | |||
Someone has done a lot of good work here. Does the following reference measure up? Should it be added to the article? [[User:George Swan|George Swan]] ([[User talk:George Swan|talk]]) 14:24, 19 March 2022 (CDT) | |||
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{{cite news | |||
| url = https://crossworks.holycross.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=aber_doc | |||
| title = Wordsworth, Beaumont, and the Publicity over Captain John Wordsworth's Death at Sea | |||
| work = [[The Wordsworth Circle]] | |||
| author = Richard Matlak | |||
| volume = 31 | |||
| number = 3 | |||
| year = 2000 | |||
| pages = 119-127 | |||
| date = Summer 2000 | |||
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20200709194032/https://crossworks.holycross.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=aber_doc | |||
| archivedate = 2020-07-09 | |||
| accessdate = 2022-01-28 | |||
| url-status = live | |||
| quote = <!-- In order to understand the far-ranging implications of John's demise for the lives and works of William Wordsworth and Sir George Beaumont, it is important to observe that Wordsworth's younger brother was more than a generic mariner. He was a weighty personage as the doughty captain of the Abergavenny, one of the largest and newest merchant vessels in the China fleet of the East India Company. --> After two unsuccessful voyages, the ill-fated voyage of his death held high promise not only to clear John of debt, but to make his brothers and sister rich, for they had invested--it must be said, with more than modest coercion from John--some L3000 pounds of their long-awaited settlement from Lord Lowther in their brother's personal cargo. <!-- Hopes were so high for this voyage that the governing body of the EIC had invested over L200,000 in general cargo, and included in the vessel's lading 275,000 ozs of dollars, making the Abergavenny one of the richest ships ever to sail under its flag. --> | |||
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Latest revision as of 13:24, 19 March 2022
Bibliography
It would be good to have the bibliography page filled in. Any volunteers? Michael Forde Cayley 12:40, 19 April 2008 (CDT)
- I'd like to have a go at this. Jeffrey Side 15:34, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
- I've added a bibliography. Jeffrey Side 17:42, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
No sinecure
I have changed the word "sinecure" to "post". Gill's biography asserts that it was not a sinecure. I don't know whether it is worth adding that both Shelley and Browning, associating his change of political views with his acceptance of the post, wrote poems which were simultaneously appreciative and condemnatory. Again, it might be mentioned that he never entirely went back on his early positive views of the French Revolution. But that might be giving too much weight to a certain aspect of his life and work. --Martin Wyatt 19:28, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Approval?
I think I have now done all the work on this article that I am going to do, making some additions and minor corrections, and adding references. Parts of the article remain unreferenced. I don't know whether it might be considered appropriate for approval. Since it seems to be the fashion to make comparisons with Wikipedia, I will say that it is better organised than the Wikipedia equivalent. --Martin Wyatt (talk) 19:53, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
Another reference?
Someone has done a lot of good work here. Does the following reference measure up? Should it be added to the article? George Swan (talk) 14:24, 19 March 2022 (CDT)
<ref name=WordsworthCircleBeaumont> {{cite news | url = https://crossworks.holycross.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=aber_doc | title = Wordsworth, Beaumont, and the Publicity over Captain John Wordsworth's Death at Sea | work = [[The Wordsworth Circle]] | author = Richard Matlak | volume = 31 | number = 3 | year = 2000 | pages = 119-127 | date = Summer 2000 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20200709194032/https://crossworks.holycross.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=aber_doc | archivedate = 2020-07-09 | accessdate = 2022-01-28 | url-status = live | quote = <!-- In order to understand the far-ranging implications of John's demise for the lives and works of William Wordsworth and Sir George Beaumont, it is important to observe that Wordsworth's younger brother was more than a generic mariner. He was a weighty personage as the doughty captain of the Abergavenny, one of the largest and newest merchant vessels in the China fleet of the East India Company. --> After two unsuccessful voyages, the ill-fated voyage of his death held high promise not only to clear John of debt, but to make his brothers and sister rich, for they had invested--it must be said, with more than modest coercion from John--some L3000 pounds of their long-awaited settlement from Lord Lowther in their brother's personal cargo. <!-- Hopes were so high for this voyage that the governing body of the EIC had invested over L200,000 in general cargo, and included in the vessel's lading 275,000 ozs of dollars, making the Abergavenny one of the richest ships ever to sail under its flag. --> }} </ref>