"Who wrote the poems ""The Solitary Reaper""and""Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3rd. 1802""?"
"things found in nature, such as the stars, the sea, and ""the heavens."" For Wordsworth, being likened to nature is the highest compliment possible. 1807 in poetry London, 1802 ""London, 1802"" is a poem by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In the poem Wordsworth castigates the English people as stagnant and selfish, and eulogises seventeenth-century poet John Milton. Composed in 1802, ""London, 1802"" was published for the first time in ""Poems, in Two Volumes"" (1807). Wordsworth begins the poem by wishing that Milton were still alive, for ""England hath need of thee."" This is because it is his opinion"
"(Coleridge) were written by Coleridge; all other poems were written by Wordsworth. In first edition, 1798 there were 19 poems written by Wordsworth and 4 poems by Coleridge. For the 1800 edition, Wordsworth added several poems which make up Volume II. The poem ""The Convict"" (Wordsworth) was in the 1798 edition but Wordsworth omitted it from the 1800 edition, replacing it with Coleridge's ""Love"". ""Lewti or the Circassian Love-chaunt"" (Coleridge) exists in some 1798 editions in place of ""The Convict"". The poems ""Lines written when sailing in a Boat at evening"" and ""Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames"" are"
"one poem in the 1798 edition entitled ""Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening."" Lyrical Ballads Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry. Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection, including"
"poem was written on the beach at Yarmouth on a stormy evening, and was first published in 1818: Britannia Monument The Nelson's Monument is a commemorative column or tower built in memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson, situated on the Denes, Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, England. It was designated as a Grade I listed structure in 1953. Designed by architect William Wilkins, it was raised in the period 1817–19 from money raised by a committee of local magnates. The first custodian of the monument was former Able Seaman James Sharman, a member of the crew of the ""Victory"""
"between 1670 and Wordsworth's time. However, sonnets came back strongly with the French Revolution. Wordsworth himself wrote hundreds of sonnets, of which amongst the best-known are ""Upon Westminster Bridge"", ""The world is too much with us"" and ""London, 1802"" addressed to Milton; his sonnets were essentially modelled on Milton's. Keats and Shelley also wrote major sonnets; Keats's sonnets used formal and rhetorical patterns inspired partly by Shakespeare, and Shelley innovated radically, creating his own rhyme scheme for the sonnet ""Ozymandias"". Sonnets were written throughout the 19th century, but, apart from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ""Sonnets from the Portuguese"" and the sonnets"
"a Nightingale,' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn,' and 'To Autumn' as three of the most anthologized lyric poems of tragic vision in English."" To Autumn ""To Autumn"" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included ""Lamia"" and ""The Eve of St. Agnes"". ""To Autumn"" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's ""1819 odes"". Although personal problems left him little time to devote to poetry in 1819, he"
"Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, including ""Essay on Criticism"", ""The Rape of the Lock"" and ""The Dunciad"", and for his translation of Homer. He is the second-most frequently quoted writer in ""The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations"" after Shakespeare. Alexander Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior (1646–1717), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith (née Turner) (1643–1733), who were both Catholics. Edith's sister Christiana was the wife of the famous miniature painter Samuel Cooper. Pope's"
"Among Wordsworth's most important poems, are ""Michael"", ""Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"", ""Resolution and Independence"", """" and the long, autobiographical, epic ""The Prelude"". Robert Southey (1774–1843) was another of the so-called ""Lake Poets"", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame has been long eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) was an English essayist, best known for his ""Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"" (1821), an autobiographical account of his laudanum and its effect on his life. The"
"which includes the poem ""Rule, Britannia"" (1740), ""The Castle of Indolence"" (1748) and ""The Seasons"" (1738). His poem ""Rule, Britannia"" was set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740 and became a patriotic song. There is a memorial to him in Richmond Park. After Thomson's death the house was bought by a friend, George Ross, who enlarged it and gave it the name Rossdale Cottage. Over the years the name was altered slightly to Rosedale Cottage. In 1786 it was sold to the widow of Admiral Edward Boscawen. After she died in 1805 it was bought by Charles Talbot, the"
"Joseph Edwards Carpenter Joseph Edwards Carpenter (2 November 1813, London – 6 May 1885, Bayswater) was an English playwright, composer, and songwriter. In 1851 Carpenter moved from Leamington to London. He wrote various touring musical entertainments such as ""The Road, the Rail and the River"", and a ""Vocal, Pictorial, and Descriptive Illustration of Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1853). A two-act musical drama ""The Sanctuary"" and his three-act drama ""Love and Honour"" appeared in 1854, and a three-act drama ""Adam Bede"" in 1862. He wrote lyrics for over 2500 songs and duets, publishing them in ""Ainsworth's Magazine"" and other magazines, and partnering"
"James Thomson (poet, born 1700) James Thomson (c. 11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748) was a British poet and playwright, known for his poems ""The Seasons"" and ""The Castle of Indolence"", and for the lyrics of ""Rule, Britannia!"". James Thomson was born in Ednam in Roxburghshire around 11 September 1700 and baptised on 15 September. He was the fourth of nine children of Thomas Thomson and Beatrix Thomson (née Trotter). Beatrix Thomson was born in Fogo, Berwickshire and was a distant relation of the house of Hume. Thomas Thomson was the Presbyterian minister of Ednam until eight weeks after"
"The Sweepers (poem) ""The Sweepers"" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the fourth of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title ""The Fringes of the Fleet"". Like the others in the cycle, it is intended for four baritone voices: a solo and chorus. It was originally written with orchestral accompaniment, but was later published to be sung with piano accompaniment. The poem was called by Kipling """"Mine Sweepers"""", and is about the British ships called minesweepers which"
"by the German U-boat ""U""-9. Phillipps-Wolley died in Duncan on 8 July 1918. Clive Phillipps-Wolley Sir Clive Phillipps-Wolley (born Edward Clive Oldnall Long Phillipps, 3 April 1853 – 8 July 1918) was a British-Canadian official, author and big game hunter. His two most famous poems are perhaps ""The Sea Queen Wakes"" (1896) and ""Coronation Hymn"" composed in honour of the coronation of George V. Edward Clive Oldnall Long Phillipps was born in 1853 as the eldest son of a public schoolmaster Richard Augustus Long Phillipps, who was distantly related to Lord Robert Clive. He was educated at Rossall School. In"
"fairly uncommon; possibly the last major poem in the tradition is William Dunbar's superb ""Tretis of the Tua Marriit Wemen and the Wedo"" (c. 1500). By the middle of the sixteenth century, the four-beat alliterative line had completely vanished, at least from the written tradition: the last poem using the form that has survived, ""Scotish Feilde"", was written in or soon after 1515 for the circle of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby in commemoration of the Battle of Flodden. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), a scholar of Old and Middle English and of Old Norse, used alliterative verse extensively"
"Resolution and Independence ""Resolution and Independence"" is a lyric poem by the English romantic poet William Wordsworth, composed in 1802 and published in 1807 in ""Poems in Two Volumes"". The poem contains twenty stanzas written in modified rhyme royal, and describes Wordsworth’s encounter with a leech-gatherer near his home in the Lake District of England. Stanzas I–III of the poem describe the poet's joy while taking a morning walk after a night of rain. In stanzas IV–VII, the poet is suddenly beset by anxious thoughts and fears about his own future, as well as the future of all poets, saying"
"alone; But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulphs than he.</poem> <poem>'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjur'd ear.</poem> William Cowper William Cowper ( ; 26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century"
"Ronald Duncan Ronald Frederick Henry Duncan (6 August 1914 – 3 June 1982) was a writer, poet and playwright, now best known for his poem ""The Horse"" and for preparing the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera ""The Rape of Lucretia"", first performed in 1946. Duncan was born, Ronald Frederick Henry Dunkelsbühler, in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), in 1914. Duncan's mother, Ethel Dunkelsbühler, moved the family to London after the outbreak of World War One, though his father, Reginald Dunkelsbühler, remained behind, dying before he could rejoin the family. Duncan attended Downing College, Cambridge in 1933, reading English under"
"Haydn's oratorio ""The Seasons"". Thomson is one of the sixteen Scottish poets and writers appearing on the Scott Monument on Princes Street in Edinburgh. He appears on the right side of the east face. Thomson has a large memorial in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey next to William Shakespeare and underneath his countryman, Robert Burns. James Thomson (poet, born 1700) James Thomson (c. 11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748) was a British poet and playwright, known for his poems ""The Seasons"" and ""The Castle of Indolence"", and for the lyrics of ""Rule, Britannia!"". James Thomson was born in Ednam"
"in 1901. In Richmond Park's Pembroke Lodge gardens, there is a memorial to the poet James Thomson, who died at Richmond in 1748. This is a black wooden board with a poem about Thomson by John Heneage Jesse. John Heneage Jesse John Heneage Jesse (1809 – July 7, 1874), English historian, son of Edward Jesse, was educated at Eton, and afterward became a clerk in the secretary's department of the Admiralty. His poem on Mary, Queen of Scots, was published about 1831, and was followed by a collection of poems entitled ""Tales of the Dead"". He also wrote a drama,"
"cleared the seas of enemy mines in World War I. T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". The Sweepers (poem) ""The Sweepers"" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the fourth of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title ""The Fringes of the Fleet"". Like the others in the cycle, it is intended for four baritone voices: a solo and chorus. It was originally written with orchestral accompaniment, but was"
"Charles Lloyd (poet) Charles Lloyd II (12 February 1775 – 16 January 1839), poet, was a friend of Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas de Quincey. His best-known poem is ""Desultory Thoughts in London"". Born in Birmingham, Charles Lloyd II was the eldest son of Charles Lloyd (1748–1828), the Quaker banker and philanthropist. One of his sisters married a Wordsworth and another sister Anna Braithwaite was a Quaker preacher who toured Britain, Ireland and the United States several times. He was educated by a private tutor with the idea that he would work at his father’s bank, but finance"
"The poem was published in the 11 September 1802 ""Morning Post"" as part of a series of poems by Coleridge during September through October 1802. The poem was printed six other times, with a few changes to the poem including two passages that were changed and one added by an edition printed in 1812 in Coleridge's ""The Friend"". Later editions follow the 1812 edition with little variation. This use of an unacknowledged source was described by Thomas de Quincey, a contemporary of Coleridge, as plagiarism. This claim has since been brought up many times by scholars trying to determine Coleridge's"
"To Autumn ""To Autumn"" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included ""Lamia"" and ""The Eve of St. Agnes"". ""To Autumn"" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's ""1819 odes"". Although personal problems left him little time to devote to poetry in 1819, he composed ""To Autumn"" after a walk near Winchester one autumnal evening. The work marks the end of his poetic career, as he needed"
"style of the poem to many of Coleridge's other poems of the time, including ""To the Autumnal Moon"", ""Pain"", ""On Receiving an Account that his only Sister's Death was Inevitable"" and ""To the River Otter"". Also, Coleridge uses the word ""ah"" in a regretful manner which is common to many of his poems, including ""On Receiving an Account"", ""Absence"" and ""To the River Otter"". On Quitting School ""On Quitting School"" is a sonnet written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1791. It describes Coleridge's feelings of leaving school for Cambridge in an optimistic manner quite contrary to the views he expressed"
"at which the poem was published often has no bearing on when it was written; the ""Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan"" and ""Requisition to the Queen"" were amongst McGonagall's earliest written poems, yet they appear in ""More Poetic Gems"" and ""Last Poetic Gems"" respectively. William McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish weaver, poet and actor. He won notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his work. He wrote about 200 poems, including ""The Tay Bridge Disaster"" and ""The Famous Tay Whale"","
"Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for ""The Faerie Queene"", an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language. Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year 1552, though there is still some ambiguity as to the exact date of his birth. His parenthood is obscure, but he was probably the son of John Spenser, a"
"Charles Whitehead Charles Whitehead (1804 – 5 July 1862) was an English poet, novelist, and dramatist. Whitehead was born in London, the eldest son of a wine merchant. His most memorable works, which met with popular favour were: ""The Solitary"" (1831), a poem, ""The Autobiography of Jack Ketch"" (1834), a novel, ""The Cavalier"" (1836), a play in blank verse, ""Richard Savage"" (1842), perhaps his finest novel; and ""The Earl of Essex"", an historical romance (1843). Whitehead recommended Charles Dickens for the writing of the letterpress for Robert Seymour's drawings, which ultimately developed into ""The Pickwick Papers"". Whitehead had problems with"
"John Heneage Jesse John Heneage Jesse (1809 – July 7, 1874), English historian, son of Edward Jesse, was educated at Eton, and afterward became a clerk in the secretary's department of the Admiralty. His poem on Mary, Queen of Scots, was published about 1831, and was followed by a collection of poems entitled ""Tales of the Dead"". He also wrote a drama, ""Richard III"", and a fragmentary poem entitled ""London"". None of these ventures achieved any success, but his numerous historical works are written with vivacity and interest, and, in their own style, are an important contribution to the history"
"Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (6 October 1573 – 10 November 1624), (pronunciation uncertain: ""Rezley"", ""Rizely"" (archaic), (present-day) and have been suggested), was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and Mary Browne, daughter of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu. Shakespeare's two narrative poems, ""Venus and Adonis"" and ""The Rape of Lucrece"", were dedicated to Southampton, who is frequently identified as the Fair Youth of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Henry Wriothesley, born 6 October 1573 at Cowdray House, Sussex, was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, by Mary"
"that warr, there perished not manye by the sworde, but all by the extreamytie of famine ... they themselves had wrought'"" 1590: 1591: 1592: 1595: 1596: Posthumous: |- style=""text-align:center;"" Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for ""The Faerie Queene"", an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language. Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year"
"on the bridge. In 1844 Thomas Hood wrote the poem ""The Bridge of Sighs"", which concerns the suicide of a prostitute there. Paintings of the bridge were created by the French Impressionist Claude Monet and the English Romantic John Constable. The bridge was nationalised in 1878 and placed under the control of the Metropolitan Board of Works, which removed the toll from it. Michael Faraday tried in 1832 to measure the potential difference between each side of the bridge caused by the ebbing salt water flowing through the Earth's magnetic field. See magnetohydrodynamics. From 1884 serious problems were found in"
"advocated in 1825 by Richard Duppa, are slight. He wrote in his sixteenth year a poem to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, which was prefixed by Henry Pemberton to his ""View of Newton's Philosophy"", published in 1728. In 1737, he published an epic poem in praise of liberty, ""Leonidas"", which was thought to have a special reference to the politics of the time; commended by the prince of Wales and his court, it soon passed through several editions. In 1739, Glover published a poem entitled ""London, or the Progress of Commerce""; and in 1740 he published a ballad, ""Admiral"
"wrote of the poem, ""This is a most psychological rhyme. It contains a profound truth which is illustrated daily in the lives of all of us"". The effect is the reverse of a solvitur ambulando. The poem, a short rhyme, is usually attributed to Katherine Craster (1841–1874) in ""Pinafore Poems"", 1871. By 1881 it had begun appearing in journals such as ""The Spectator"" and ""The Living Age"". The poem later appeared in an article by British zoologist E. Ray Lankester, published in the scientific journal ""Nature"" on May 23, 1889, which discussed the work of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge in"