William Wordsworth

The Solitary Reaper: About the Poem Romantic poet William Wordsworth’s one of the most popular lyrical poems “The Solitary Reaper” is a fine piece of ballad written in 1805 and published in 1807. According to the Wikipedia entry, the poem was inspired by Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy’s stay at the village of Strathyre in …

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Daffodils: About the poem The Romantic poet William Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”, also known as “The Daffodils” is probably his most famous lyrical work. Background The poem was written in 1804, inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a “long belt” of …

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