![]() ![]() ![]() The last three lines of The Rainbow also feature in the epigraph of Wordsworth's better known Ode: Imitations of Immortality which he began writing the day after completing The Rainbow. Wordsworth later wrote about the abbey in his famous poem Tintern Abbey (1798). The poem was published as part of Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807. My Heart Leaps Up, or The Rainbow as it is also known, was written on the night of March 26, 1802, when Wordsworthwas staying in Grasmere in the Lake District. 5If walking backwards and forwards stimulated Wordsworths creative faculties, he also composed poems during rambles or long-distance travels. He began to write poetry while he was at school, but didn't have anything published until 1793. This edition included a preface to the poems. The second edition was published in 1800 and only had Wordsworth listed as the author. As a young man, Wordsworth developed a love of nature, a theme reflected in many of his poems. Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the growth of a poets. Neither Wordsworth nor Coleridge were credited as authors, but two of their most famous poems were published Wordsworth’s poem Tintern Abbey and Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Born to an attorney, Wordsworth was the second, with an elder brother Richard, a younger sister, Dorothy and two younger brothers, John and Christopher. ![]() Our Featured Poem this week comes from that old Romantic William Wordsworth but it's not the daffodils - we're looking skyward this time with The Rainbow.īorn in 1770, both William Wordsworth's parents died before he was 15, and he and his four siblings were left in the care of different relatives. William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850 ) In the Lake District was born the Great Nature Poet of all times, William Wordsworth on April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth on the River Derwent. ![]()
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