Poems in Two Volumes
1807
First Published
3.60
Average Rating
168
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Reviewed by Byron, satirized by Mant as revealing silliness and simplicity, Poems in two volumes shows Wordsworth at the height of his powers. It contains the great lyric poetry of 1802-4, including 'The Rainbow', 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', 'She was a phantom of delight', 'Resolution and Independence', 'The Solitary Reaper' and the Immortality Ode, together with the patriotic sonnets of National Independence and Liberty and the more personal ones, 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge', and 'It is a beauteous evening'.
Avg Rating
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Author
William Wordsworth
Author · 63 books
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years, which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which, it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
