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Former title: Bore the lack of a title in the 1807 and 1815 editions. From 1820 onward, the poem bore the current title. Manuscript title: "Dancers." "By their floating mill," Poems of the Fancy: 1807 Power of Music 1806 Manuscript title: "A Street Fiddler (in London)." "An Orpheus! an Orpheus! yes, Faith may grow bold," Poems of the ...
"The Solitary Reaper" is a lyric poem by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works. [1] The poem was inspired by his and his sister Dorothy's stay at the village of Strathyre in the parish of Balquhidder in Scotland in September 1803. [2] "The Solitary Reaper" is one of Wordsworth's most famous post-Lyrical ...
"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.
Stephen Gill flatly contradicted Wordsworth's remarks on "Yarrow Revisited": "It is the pressure of fact against the consolations of fancy which shapes the poet's meditation and makes it so poignant." It is, he wrote, a strong poem which, in its final lines, sums up the Yarrow sequence and "reaffirm[s] the rewards both of art and friendship". [73]
William Wordsworth, author of "I travelled among unknown men" Reading of "I travelled among unknown men" "I travelled among unknown men" is a love poem completed in April 1801 [1] by the English poet William Wordsworth and originally intended for the Lyrical Ballads anthology, but it was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807 (see 1807 in poetry).
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 Immortality" "Ode to Duty" "The Solitary ...
"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" is a three-stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old. The verse was first printed in Lyrical Ballads , 1800, a volume of Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's poems that marked a climacteric in the English Romantic movement .
Wordsworth said that, as a youth, nature stirred "an appetite, a feeling and a love", but by the time he wrote Lyrical Ballads, it evoked "the still sad music of humanity". [84] The five "Lucy poems" are often interpreted as representing Wordsworth's opposing views of nature as well as meditations on the cycle of life.