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'.
