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In the view of one Wordsworth biographer, Mary Moorman (1906–1994), "The identity of 'Lucy' has been the problem of critics for many years. But Wordsworth is a poet before he is a biographer, and neither 'Lucy' nor her home nor his relations with her are necessarily in the strict sense historical.
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 ...
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).
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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 ...
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 ...
The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. [1] But in the opinion of Lord Byron sonnets were “the most puling, petrifying, stupidly platonic compositions”, [ 2 ] at least as a vehicle for love poetry, and he wrote ...
The principal members of the 'group' were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. Dorothy Wordsworth was an auxiliary member who was unpublished during her lifetime (her journals, letters, and poems were published posthumously), but she provided much of the inspiration for her brother William's work. [2]