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Book Third: Residence at Cambridge 1799–1805 "It was a dreary morning when the wheels" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Fourth: Summer Vacation 1799–1805 "Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Fifth: Books 1799–1805
"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 ...
Wordsworth's Influence on Shelley: A Study of Poetic Authority. London: Macmillan. Brigham, Linda. "Irony and Clerisy: Alastor, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism". Brooks, Richard. "Frankenstein lives – thanks to the poet: Percy Shelley helped his wife Mary create the monster, a new book claims." The Sunday Times, 24 August 2008.
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).
Wordsworth was similarly welcoming of progress in the sonnet "Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways" (1833), seeing them as a sign of man's questing spirit, despite their intrusion upon "the loveliness of nature". [54] But while Wordsworth posed as friendly to modern technological advances, he was resistant to social change made in their name.
One of the main themes of "Lyrical Ballads" is the return to the original state of nature, in which people led a purer and more innocent existence. Wordsworth subscribed to Rousseau's belief that humanity was essentially good but was corrupted by the influence of society. This may be linked with the sentiments spreading through Europe just ...
Book XIX of this, the main locus of Augustine's normative political thought, is focused on the question, 'Is the good life social?' In other words, 'Is human wellbeing found in the good of the whole society, the common good?' Chapters 5–17 of Book XIX address this question. Augustine's emphatic answer is yes (see start of chap. 5).
Wordsworth agrees to do so and gives him the key to unlock the door. The Chancellor flees from the room just before the bomb explodes, killing Wordsworth. Due to his cowardly display in Wordsworth's room and invocation of God, the Chancellor is replaced by his own subaltern and declared obsolete. He protests against this verdict and tries to ...