Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 15:03, 13 May 2010: 423 × 640 (50 KB): AYE R {{Information |Description={{en|1=Death of Montcalm. Burning time with text explaining the final moments after the defeat of Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham. 1759.}} {{fr|1=Gravure d'époque avec texte expliquant les derniers moments de Montcalm après
What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; Permanent link; Page information; Get shortened URL; Download QR code
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 ...
Wordsworth wanted to join his friend, but was forced to decline over monetary issues; Wordsworth was unable to provide for both himself and his sister in such an expensive town, and they instead moved to Goslar. The separation, with the expenses, made it impossible for Wordsworth to spend time with Coleridge until after the winter of 1798.
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.
"Theme of A slumber did my spirit seal" is a poem that was written by William Wordsworth in 1798 and first published in volume II of the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads.It is part of a series of poems written about an mysterious woman named Lucy who was believed to be his one of the loved ones , whom scholars have not been able to identify and are not sure whether she was real or fictional.
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 ...
The Biographia Literaria is a critical autobiography by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1817 in two volumes.Its working title was 'Autobiographia Literaria'. The formative influences on the work were William Wordsworth's theory of poetry, the Kantian view of imagination as a shaping power (for which Coleridge later coined the neologism "esemplastic"), various post-Kantian writers ...