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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 ...
William the Third (IX) 1821 "Calm as an under-current, strong to draw" Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times 1822 Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty (X) 1821 "Ungrateful Country, if thou e'er forget" Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times 1822
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 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.
Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (1874) is a travel memoir by Dorothy Wordsworth about a six-week, 663-mile journey through the Scottish Highlands from August–September 1803 with her brother William Wordsworth and mutual friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The third, a tribute to his friend Walter Scott, was inspired by the poets' last visit to the Yarrow the year before Scott's death. All three draw on the rich heritage of earlier poems and ballads set in the Yarrow Valley. "Yarrow Unvisited" is one of Wordsworth's most famous short poems, [1] and has been judged one of his finest. Modern ...
William Shuter, Portrait of William Wordsworth, 1798. The earliest known portrait of Wordsworth, painted in the year he wrote the first drafts of "The Lucy poems" [1] The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801.
"Hart-Leap Well" is a poem written by the Romantic Literature poet William Wordsworth. [1] It was first published in 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads. [2] The collection consists of two volumes and "Hart-Leap Well" is an opening poem of volume II.