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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).
The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801. All but one were first published during 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads , a collaboration between Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was both Wordsworth's first major publication and a ...
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. His early years were dominated by his experience of old Trafford around the Lake District and the English moors.
After Blake, among the earliest Romantics were the Lake Poets, a small group of friends, including William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), Robert Southey (1774–1843) and journalist Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859). However, at the time, Walter Scott (1771–1832) was the most famous poet.
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils" [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District. [4]
They surmised that the name Bower was a corruption of the Scottish word Bowder, meaning "a blast or squall of wind". [3]William Wordsworth (1770–1850) wrote in 1823 that as a child he used to hear this rhyme "in the time of a high wind". [5]
By 1833, Scott's son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart, could call it one of Wordsworth's most exquisite works, [24] and on the poet's death in 1850 his obituarist in The Athenaeum named it, along with about twenty sonnets and four longer poems, as one of the works by which he would be remembered. [25]
April 7 – William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet (died 1850; October 2 – James Plumptre, English dramatist and cleric (died 1832) December 9 (bapt.) – James Hogg, "the Ettrick shepherd", Scottish poet and novelist (died 1835) Possible year – John Joseph Stockdale, English editor and publisher (died 1847)