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The title page of Poems in Two Volumes. Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. [1] It contains many notable poems, including: "Resolution and Independence" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils") "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of ...
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" is a Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames, viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807.
Resolution and Independence" is a lyric poem by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, composed in 1802 and published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes. The poem contains twenty stanzas written in modified rhyme royal, and describes Wordsworth's encounter with a leech-gatherer near his home in the Lake District of England.
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle 1833 " 'Thou look'st upon me, and dost fondly think," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Nun's Well, Brigham 1833 "The cattle crowding round this beverage clear"
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]
Pencil drawing of William's sister Dorothy Wordsworth in later life. Lucy's identity has been the subject of much speculation, [17] and some have guessed that the poems are an attempt by Wordsworth to voice his affection for Dorothy; [18] this line of thought reasoning that the poems dramatise Wordsworth's feelings of grief for her inevitable ...
"Character of the Happy Warrior" is a poem by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Composed in 1806, after the death of Lord Nelson, hero of the Napoleonic Wars, and first published in 1807, [1] the poem purports to describe the ideal "man in arms" and has, through ages since, been the source of much metaphor in political and military life.