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William the Third (IX) 1821 "Calm as an under-current, strong to draw" Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times 1822 Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty (X) 1821 "Ungrateful Country, if thou e'er forget" Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times 1822
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).
Talk of publication became inevitable. In 1822, Dorothy put together a more refined version--she had lost the original and it was completed from memory--but a suitable publisher was never located. It would not be until 1874, nearly 20 years after her death in 1855, that John Campbell Shairp would publish it for the first time. It sold so well a ...
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 ...
Rydal Mount, where the poet William Wordsworth lived. Rydal Mount is a house in the small village of Rydal, near Ambleside in the English Lake District. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth from 1813 to his death in 1850. It is currently operated as a writer's home museum.
THE FINAL SCENE. 1993. A clearing in the woods near Chicago, sun shining, puffy clouds. Robert Downey Jr., twenty-seven years old, just a few months past his Best Actor Academy Award nomination ...
The Spirit of the Age (full title The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits) is a collection of character sketches by the early 19th century English essayist, literary critic, and social commentator William Hazlitt, portraying 25 men, mostly British, whom he believed to represent significant trends in the thought, literature, and politics of his time.