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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 ...
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 ...
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).
Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 The Solitary Reaper (VIII) 1803 and 1805 "Behold her, single in the field," Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe (IX) 1803 "Child of loud-throated War! the mountain Stream"
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]
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The Solitary Reaper for mixed chorus, viola and piano (setting William Wordsworth) Four Songs of Shakespeare for high voice, viola and piano, Op. 103 (1977) The Cambridge Hymnal Cambridge University Press (1967) Wordsworth contributed five hymns. Piano solo. Three Pieces for Piano (early 1930s) [20] Sonata, D minor, Op. 13 (1939) [21] [20]
His longer works include a monograph on Ferdinand de Saussure, Stars, Tigers and the Shape of Words, [3] and self-published, very erudite book-length commentaries on individual poems by Shakespeare (Sonnets 94 and 15), George Herbert ("Love III") and Wordsworth ("The Solitary Reaper").