# Mr. Wordsworth — Suspiria de Profundis character guide

> Mr. Wordsworth in Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Wordsworth, myself

**First appearance:** 0001-suspiria-de-profundis

## Who they are

The poet William Wordsworth, referenced as a contemporary and influence.

## In the story

### [The Glory of Motion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/chapters/i-the-glory-of-motion)

Not directly present, but the chapter's poetic sensibility and themes of motion and nature echo Wordsworthian ideas; De Quincey was a contemporary.

### [The Solitude of Childhood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/chapters/the-solitude-of-childhood)

Referenced for his poems 'The Hart-leap Well' and 'Danish Boy' that evoke the Pan-like silence of noonday.

### [Who Is This Woman That Beckoneth and Warneth Me from the Place Where She Is, and in Whose Eyes Is Woeful Remembrance? I Guess Who She Is](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/chapters/who-is-this-woman-that-beckoneth-and-warneth-me-from-the-place-where-she-is-and-in-whose-eyes-is-woeful-remembrance-i-guess-who-she-is)

Quoted regarding the sense of mysterious preexistence and prophetic visions of future life in Westmoreland.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/chapters/endnotes)

Wordsworth is referenced for a sketch of the Brocken spectre appearance.

## Links

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