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6 mar 2017 · Learn about the life and works of the Romantic poet who became the UK Poet Laureate in 1843. Discover his famous poems on nature, London, daffodils, and more.
- Shelley’s Greatest Poems
Published in The Examiner on 11 January 1818, ‘Ozymandias’...
- The Solitary Reaper
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Solitary...
- Keats’s Best Poems
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) John Keats...
- From The Prelude
William Wordsworth’s great long autobiographical poem in...
- John Clare’s Poems
This little poem is not his John Clare’s most famous, but...
- Intimations of Immortality
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Ode:...
- Classic Poems by Coleridge
Six of Coleridge’s finest poems selected by Dr Oliver...
- Shelley’s Greatest Poems
6 paź 2018 · A personal and critical appreciation of the best works of the English Romantic poet, from Daffodils to The Prelude. Learn about Wordsworth's life, style, themes, and legacy in this essay by Charles Eager.
Some of Wordsworth’s most famous poems include ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,’ ‘Lucy Gray‘, ‘The World is Too Much With Us,’ ‘My Heart Leaps Up,’ and ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.’
Wordsworth wrote the poems that would go into the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads—poems such as “Tintern Abbey,” “Expostulation and Reply,” “The Tables Turned,” “Goody Blake and Harry Gill,” and “Michael.” During 1798 Wordsworth also worked on a piece of prose setting out his evolving ideas on justice and morality.
We Are Seven | The Poetry Foundation. By William Wordsworth. ———A simple Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? I met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl. That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air,
A famous poem by Wordsworth that describes his encounter with a crowd of golden daffodils. The poem expresses his joy and wonder at the beauty of nature and its effect on his mind.
Explore the poetry of William Wordsworth, the most famous poet of the Lake District and the Romantic movement. Learn about his themes, questions and ideas, and read his most famous poem 'I wandered lonely as a Cloud'.
