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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]
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) also published other poems. They, along with the contents of the four published collections, are included in the 2003 edition of his Collected Poems in two appendices. The previous 1988 edition contains everything that appears in the 2003 edition and additionally includes all the known mature poems that he did not ...
Writing an overview of the author's career in 1919, Bertram Stevens said of the poem: "Monarchs were the traditional symbols of tyranny, so much of the unrest of the time expressed itself as republicanism; the average respectable citizen, by the way, regarded socialism, republicanism, communism, and anarchism as the same thing and all anathema.
Date of signature in the book predates formal release in publication of the poem. The Gift Outright; The Most of It; Come In; All Revelation [2] A Considerable Speck; The Silken Tent; Happiness Makes Up In Height For What It Lacks In Length; The Subverted Flower; The Lesson for Today; The Discovery of the Madeiras; Of the Stones of the Place
Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty: 1807 The Mother's Return 1807 By My Sister "A Month, sweet Little-ones, is past" Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. 1815 Gipsies 1807 "Yet are they here the same unbroken knot" Poems of the Imagination: 1807 O Nightingale! thou surely art 1807 "O Nightingale! thou surely art"
The Lotos-Eaters is a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, published in Tennyson's 1832 poetry collection. It was inspired by his trip to Spain with his close friend Arthur Hallam , where they visited the Pyrenees mountains.
Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [2] Thomas wrote the poem in 1947 while visiting Florence with his family.
Songs of Experience is a collection of 26 poems forming the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The poems were published in 1794 (see 1794 in poetry). Some of the poems, such as "The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found", were moved by Blake to Songs of Innocence and were frequently moved between the two books. [note 1]