Wordsworth's Poetical Works William Wordsworth

A mountain, dotted with fully bloomed flowers and orange-leaved trees in autumn, is left barren by the heavy snowfall endured during winter; however, when spring comes, the mountain is embellished with new flowers, its beauty greater than ever...

Romantic poets including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats and this essay’s focus, William Wordsworth, are all drawn to a particular theme in their respective work – the imagination. Imagination is a concept that defies easy analysis and one...

Although Astrophil and Stella #1 by Sir Philip Sidney and It is a Beauteous Evening by William Wordsworth were written over two hundred years apart, they share many common themes, with just one major difference. Both poets write about love, and...

Poets have long argued over what constitutes real and decent poetry, but how well do these poets exemplify their arguments in their own work? In William Wordsworth’s 1802 “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” the English Romantic poet outlines two major...

In a variety of the works we have read so far in class, there have been evidence of unhealthy attachment and obsession in characters, specifically with those who have lost a love one. This ultimately results in a loss of identity in the...

The poem, “A Complaint” by William Wordsworth presents the solitude and sorrow of the speaker after experiencing the loss of a loved one. The feelings of love and affection that the poet once felt for his friend is now leading him into reminiscing...

William Wordsworth and other Romantic poets expressed concern for the commercialisation of England spurred by the Industrial Revolution and the desire for material wealth. In “William Wordsworth: Poems collected by Seamus Heaney” (2007) the notion...