Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
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).
Even the title of the collection recalls rustic forms of art – the word "lyrical" links the poems with the ancient rustic bards and lends an air of spontaneity, while "ballads" are an oral mode of storytelling used by the common people. [citation needed] In the 'Advertisement' included in the 1798 edition, Wordsworth explained his poetical ...
Calvert had two siblings: younger sister Anne (b.1775), and older brother William (b.1770). [15] [16] William Calvert and William Wordsworth went to school together at Hawkshead Grammar School, and the boys became close lifelong friends; Wordsworth's father was also an agent for a noble (the Earl of Lonsdale) and their families may have already been acquainted. [17]
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 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.
Book Second: School-time (continued) 1799–1805 "Thus far, O Friend! have we, though leaving much" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Third: Residence at Cambridge 1799–1805 "It was a dreary morning when the wheels" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Fourth: Summer Vacation 1799 ...
Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (1874) is a travel memoir by Dorothy Wordsworth about a six-week, 663-mile journey through the Scottish Highlands from August–September 1803 with her brother William Wordsworth and mutual friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
William Shuter, Portrait of William Wordsworth, 1798. The earliest known portrait of Wordsworth, painted in the year he wrote the first drafts of "The Lucy poems" [1] The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801.