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Again Wordsworth engages deeply with earlier local poems by Hamilton, Hogg and Robert Burns, and particularly with Logan's "The Braes of Yarrow" and Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel, even down to their rhymes and rhythms, making it "more lyric than ballad, more music than narrative, more sound than sense". [47]
Wordsworth said that, as a youth, nature stirred "an appetite, a feeling and a love", but by the time he wrote Lyrical Ballads, it evoked "the still sad music of humanity". [84] The five "Lucy poems" are often interpreted as representing Wordsworth's opposing views of nature as well as meditations on the cycle of life.
For the 1800 edition Wordsworth added the poems that make up Volume II. The poem The Convict (Wordsworth) was in the 1798 edition, but Wordsworth omitted it from the 1800 edition, replacing it with Coleridge's "Love". Lewti or the Circassian Love-chaunt (Coleridge) exists in some 1798 editions in place of The Convict. In the 1798 edition the ...
When Love was born of heavenly line 1795 "When Love was born of heavenly line," No class assigned: 1795 1798: A Night-Piece 1798 "The sky is overcast" Poems of the Imagination: 1815 We are Seven: 1798 Manuscript title: Bore the title of " 'We are Seven, or Death". "A Simple Child," Poems referring to the Period of Childhood: 1798 Anecdote for ...
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Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. [1] It contains many notable poems, including: "Resolution and Independence" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils") "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" "Ode to Duty" "The Solitary ...
"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.
The earlier two letters reveal a spirited and charming young lady much in love with Wordsworth, well able to fend for herself. [10] In hindsight it seems that the story of the doomed illicit love affair between Vaudracour and Julia that appears in The Prelude , also published as a separate longer poem in 1820, is an oblique autobiographical ...