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Wrangham's first book of poems is noteworthy because it contained a translation of one of Wrangham's Latin poems by Coleridge, and one of Wrangham's French poems by Wordsworth. His books of poetry include The Raising of Jaïrus' Daughter (1804); A Poem on the Restoration of Learning in the East (1805); Death of Saul and Jonathan (1813 ...
Poems: In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807; The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Paul Rand. Harcourt, Brace 1975 ISBN 9780156957052 "Review of Poems, in Two Volumes by Francis Jeffrey, in Edinburgh Review, pp. 214–231, vol. XI, October 1807 – January 1808
Wordsworth himself wrote ahead to soften the thoughts of The Critical Review, hoping his friend Wrangham would push a softer approach. He succeeded in preventing a known enemy from writing the review, but it didn't help; as Wordsworth himself said, it was a case of "Out of the frying pan, into the fire".
[A 4] Yet Wordsworth structured the poems so that they are not about any one person who has died; instead they were written about a figure representing the poet's lost inspiration. Lucy is Wordsworth's inspiration, and the poems as a whole are, according to Wordsworth biographer Kenneth Johnston, "invocations to a Muse feared to be dead". [35]
It has been argued that Wordsworth was induced to write a historical poem by observing the success of Walter Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel.Wordsworth found in Thomas Whitaker's The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven the legend of a white doe which, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, continued to make a weekly pilgrimage from Rylstone to Bolton Abbey. [1]
Classed as (by Wordsworth) Publication date For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton 1811, 19 November "Beneath yon eastern ridge, the craggy bound," Inscriptions (2) 1815 Composed on the eve of the Marriage of a Friend in the Vale of Grasmere 1812 "What need of clamorous bells, or ribands gay," Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1815 Water-Fowl 1812
"Hart-Leap Well" is a poem written by the Romantic Literature poet William Wordsworth. [1] It was first published in 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads. [2] The collection consists of two volumes and "Hart-Leap Well" is an opening poem of volume II.
The poem’s writing process began in the second half of 1796. [7] [8] In its earliest form, the work existed under the title “Description of a Beggar”. [7]A part of the text, which was originally situated after sixty-six lines of today’s version of “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, was removed from the poem and made into a separate work, “Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch”. [2]