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"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 ...
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
POEMS WRITTEN DURING A TOUR IN SCOTLAND. 1. Rob Roy's Grave; 2. The solitary Reaper; 3. Stepping Westward; 4. Glen-Almain, or the Narrow Glen; 5. The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband
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).
Field Notes: 'The Solitary Reaper' and Others (privately printed, 2007). George Herbert, 'Love [III]': A Discursive Commentary (privately printed, 2011). Certain Prose of the English Intelligencer, eds. Neil Pattison, Reitha Pattison & Luke Roberts (Cambridge: Mountain, 2012). Includes early correspondence and essays by Prynne and others.
"Character of the Happy Warrior" is a poem by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Composed in 1806, after the death of Lord Nelson, hero of the Napoleonic Wars, and first published in 1807, [1] the poem purports to describe the ideal "man in arms" and has, through ages since, been the source of much metaphor in political and military life.
"Anecdote for Fathers" (full title: "Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the practice of Lying may be taught" ) is a poem by William Wordsworth first published in his 1798 collection titled Lyrical Ballads, which was co-authored by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
William Wordsworth, author of "Strange fits of passion have I known". Reading of "Strange fits of passion have I known" "Strange fits of passion have I known" is a seven-stanza poem ballad by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth.