![]() Wordsworth (1770-1850) and his four siblings were orphaned at an early age, and spent a considerable amount of their childhood years living with various (and different) relatives. And I learned how he kept revising already published poems, including those of his Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1802) and his autobiographical The Prelude (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850). I learned about the critical importance of his sister, Dorothy, and why she is responsible for us knowing so much about how he wrote his poems. I learned how the poet who was all about revolution ultimately became Britain’s poet laureate and a pillar of the literary establishment. This time, I worried less about snippets of lines and more about the poet and his poems. Studying the poetry of John Keats both before and after I participated in a Keats Walk in London led me back to Wordsworth. Perhaps it was that experience of studying him too closely that led me away (far away) from Wordsworth until just the past year. When all else failed, I always guessed Wordsworth as the author his poetry had been her particular passion. Our tests and exams were often snippets of lines of poems, and we had to identify which poet had written them. Perhaps too seriously-our English lit professor for the period covering the Romantics through the Moderns had received her Ph.D. I had studied some of the poems of William Wordsworth poems in high school, but it wasn’t until my English literature courses in college that I studied him seriously. ![]() ![]() The elder-bush has long since disappeared: it hung over the wall near the Cottage, and the Kitten continued to leap up, catching the leaves as here described. Wordsworth included this note: "Seen at Town-end, Grasmere. Wordsworth added the note "Extempore," which meant that he had written it without any preparation, in the same way that an artist does a quick sketch.Ĭomposed in 1804. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts The boughs bore leaves of green that for want of sunshine had faded into almost lily-white and from the underside of this natural sylvan bridge depended long and beautiful tresses of ivy which waved gently in the breeze that might poetically speaking be called the breath of the waterfall." Wordsworth wrote this poem while sitting in a favorite spot, by a brook that "fell down a sloping rock so as to make a waterfall considerable for that country, and across the pool below had fallen a tree, an ash if I rightly remember, from which rose perpendicularly, boughs in search of the light intercepted by the deep shade above. Written While Sailing in a Boat at Evening Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerlandģ8. Poems Composed or Suggested During a Tour in the Summer of 1833ģ4. To a Butterfly ("I've watched you now")ģ3. Characteristics of a Child Three Years Oldģ0. To the Small Celandine (Common Pilewort)Ģ8. Purchase AO's Volume 4 poetry collection which includes Tennyson, Dickinson, and Wordsworth in paperback or Kindle ( $amzn) ( K)ġ4. ![]() Wikipedia page about Dove Cottage, where Wordsworth lived and worked. We compiled a brief biography of Wordsworth for you. The extensive notes included for these poems are based on Wordsworth's own work, but have been adapted for modern readers. Home > By Subject > Poetry > Poems of William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 Poems of William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
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