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A Local Habitation (poetry, 1972) Stitch and Stone (1975) Wednesday Early Closing (memoirs, 1975) The Lake District (anthology, 1978) The Shadow of Black Combe (poetry, 1978) Sea to the West (poetry, 1981) Selected Poems 1940-1982 (poetry, 1982) Norman Nicholson's Lakeland (anthology ed. Irvine Hunt, 1991) Collected Poems (ed. Neil Curry, 1994)
The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. [8] [4] He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk near a lake at Grasmere in England: [8]
The "Lake Poet School" (or 'Bards of the Lake', or the 'Lake School') was initially a derogatory term ("the School of whining and hypochondriacal poets that haunt the Lakes", according to Francis Jeffrey as reported by Coleridge) [1] that was also a misnomer, as it was neither particularly born out of the Lake District, nor was it a cohesive school of poetry.
David Mercier Parsons was born on April 16, 1943, in Villa Rica, Georgia, and is an American author, poet, and educator.Raised in Austin, Texas, he was named by the Texas State Legislature in 2011 to a one-year term as Poet Laureate of Texas, [1] commemorated by the publication of David M. Parsons New & Selected Poems by the Texas Christian University Press.
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The Lake Poets was a group of Romantic poets from the English Lake District who wrote about nature and the sublime. ... Poetry Society of Texas; Postmodernism [118]
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Recollections of the Lake Poets is a collection of biographical essays written by the English author Thomas De Quincey.In these essays, originally published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine between 1834 and 1840, De Quincey provided some of the earliest, best informed and most candid accounts of the three Lake Poets, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, and others in ...