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Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...
Gravestone of William Wordsworth, Grasmere, Cumbria. William Wordsworth died at home at Rydal Mount from an aggravated case of pleurisy on 23 April 1850, [42] [43] and was buried at St Oswald's Church, Grasmere. His widow, Mary, published his lengthy autobiographical "Poem to Coleridge" as The Prelude several months after his death. [44]
The first recorded mention of any of the "Lucy poems" (outside of notes by either William or Dorothy) occurred after the April 1799 death of Coleridge's son Berkeley. Coleridge was then living in Germany, and received the news through a letter from his friend Thomas Poole , who in his condolences mentioned Wordsworth's "A slumber":
The Abbey and the upper reaches of the Wye, a painting by William Havell, 1804 "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" is a poem by William Wordsworth.The title, Lines Written (or Composed) a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798, is often abbreviated simply to Tintern Abbey, although that building does not appear within the poem.
Isabella Fenwick (1783 – 1856) was a 19th-century British amanuensis (secretary), and a confidante, advisor, and friend of William Wordsworth and his family in his later years. [1] She is the scribe behind the Fenwick Notes , [ 1 ] an autobiographical and poetic commentary Wordsworth dictated to her over a six-month period between January and ...
Five-year-old Edward from “Anecdote for Fathers”, as stated by Wordsworth himself, was based on a boy named Basil—the son of Wordsworth's friend, Basil Montagu. Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, looked after little Basil, who at the time of writing “Anecdote for Fathers” “had now been with the Wordsworths for three years”. [ 7 ]
Above is shown the 1798 edition of Lyrical Ballads. "Michael" was added in Wordsworth's 1800 edition. "Michael" is a pastoral poem, written by William Wordsworth and first published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, a series of poems that were said to have begun the English Romantic movement in literature. [1]
The pibroch's note, discountenanced or mute 1831 "The pibroch's note, discountenanced or mute;" Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems 1835 Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day 1831 "People! your chains are severing link by link;" Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems 1835 Composed in the Glen of Loch Etive 1831