The Romantic period of English literature is enriched with one-of-a-kind creations of legendary minds like William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and many more. Wordsworth, among them, is undoubtedly …
William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. He was a major English Romantic poet who along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped in establishing the Romantic …
William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. He was a major English Romantic poet who along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped in establishing the Romantic …
About William Wordsworth: Born in 1770, in Cockermouth, Wordsworth had a cheerful childhood which made him believe in the essential goodness of mankind. This had made him particularly fond of …
Collected in the Lyrical Ballads, among the ‘Lucy’ series, the poem She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways, retraces the poet’s prevalent meditative mood. The poem begins with the third …
In this poem, the poet finds himself caught in imagination, or memory, transfixed near his childhood home. Here, he meets a local character: a beggar whose beauty lies in his …
In this poem, the poet takes up Nature as the greatest teacher possible. Lucy had grown amidst the beauty of Nature for three years when it was decided that Nature …
Walter Pater defines Romanticism as an “addition of strangeness to beauty”; Wordsworth detects in the common aspects of life, “the light that never was on sea or land.” It is …
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered …
I hope you’ll enjoy reading this summary of daffodils by William Wordsworth. Imagination has been the source of Wordsworth’s poetry. Nature is seen as a guide/angel, a source of Wisdom …