Richard Mant Mant published "The Simpliciad", a satirical poem that parodied "Poems, in Two Volumes" (1807) by William Wordsworth. He gave notes relating his parodies to the originals. The aim of the work included the other Lake Poets, Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with "To a Young Ass" by Coleridge used to guy the group as a whole. Mant's "Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary" (1837) was one of the earliest collections of translated Latin hymnody in English. He belonged to a group of revivalist translators of Latin hymns, with John Chandler (1806–1876) and Isaac Williams. John Ellerton commented on his
Dora Wordsworth that her father's demands on her "frustrated a real talent". Dora Wordsworth died of tuberculosis at her parents' home, and is buried in the graveyard of St Oswald's Church, Grasmere, Cumbria along with her parents and siblings, aunt Sarah Hutchinson and Hartley Coleridge, son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. After her death, her distraught father (who had already lost two of his children to illness), planted hundreds of daffodils in her memory in a field beside St. Mary's Church, Rydal. The site, Dora's Field, where daffodils are still cultivated today is now owned by the National Trust. Dora Wordsworth Dorothy "Dora"