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"Mutability" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which appeared in the 1816 collection Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems. Half of the poem is quoted in his wife Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) although his authorship is not acknowledged, while the 1816 poem by Leigh Hunt is acknowledged with ...
Shelley also quotes from William Wordsworth's The Excursion (1814) the lines, "The good die first,/ And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust / Burn to the socket!" The line "It is a woe 'too deep for tears'" is a quote from Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality".
To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for taking long Walks in the Country 1802 "Dear Child of Nature, let them rail!" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1815–32); Poems of the Imagination (1836–) 1807 Vaudracour and Julia 1804 "O happy time of youthful lovers (thus" Poems founded on the Affections: 1820 The Cottager to her Infant, by my ...
[109] On "A slumber did my spirit seal", Wordsworth's friend Thomas Powell wrote that the poem "stands by itself, and is without title prefixed, yet we are to know, from the penetration of Mr. Wordsworth's admirers, that it is a sequel to the other deep poems that precede it, and is about one Lucy, who is dead. From the table of contents ...
Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous works (died 1822): The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in four volumes is published from January to May, edited by Mary Shelley , with her preface and notes, and dedicated to the Shelleys' son, Percy Florence Shelley; London: Edward Moxon (reprinted in 1847 [ 1 ] )
The programme starts as the library closes at 5pm. At the stroke of midnight, Jackson and Jelly (pink and green puppets who live in the library and hide in the daytime) come out and are joined by a presenter (one of the members of the Wordsworth family) who recites "The sun is down, the stars are bright, Story Makers come out at night.” as they appear.
At Penrith, Wordsworth was sent to a school for the children of upper-class families and taught by Ann Birkett, a woman who insisted in instilling tradition in her students that included pursuing both scholarly and local activities, especially the festivals around Easter, May Day, or Shrove Tide.