Descriptive Sketches is one of William Wordsworth's first two books (the other is An Evening Walk); both were

published by Joseph Johnson in January 1793. Descriptive Sketches describes Wordsworth's observations during a walking
tour through the Alps in the summer of 1790, when the French were celebrating the first anniversary of the Fall of the Bastille.
The concluding section of this poem, included here, describes the promise of the French Revolution in terms that enjoin
biblical millennialism with the Roman poet Virgil's fourth eclogue, which envisions the return of the primeval golden age.

The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem is an

autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. Intended as the introduction to the more
philosophical Recluse, which Wordsworth never finished, The Prelude is an extremely personal and revealing work on the
details of Wordsworth's life. Wordsworth began The Prelude in 1798 at the age of 28 and continued to work on it throughout
his life. He never gave it a title; he called it the "Poem (title not yet fixed upon) to Coleridge" and in his letters to Dorothy
Wordsworth referred to it as "the poem on the growth of my own mind". The poem was unknown to the general public until
published three months after Wordsworth's death in 1850, its final name given to it by his widow Mary.

The Prelude is widely regarded as Wordsworth's greatest work.

The Excursion: Being a portion of The Recluse, a poem is a long poem by Romantic poet William
Wordsworth and was first published in 1814. It was intended to be the second part of The Recluse, an unfinished larger work
that was also meant to include The Prelude, Wordsworth's other long poem, which was eventually published posthumously.
The exact dates of its composition are unknown, but the first manuscript is generally dated as either September 1806 or
December 1809.

The poem is arranged into nine books: "The Wanderer"; "The Solitary"; "Despondency"; "Despondency Corrected"; "The
Pastor"; "The Churchyard Among the Mountains"; "The Churchyard Among the Mountains, continued"; "The Parsonage";
"Discourse of the Wanderer, &c.". The first and second books introduce the characters of the Wanderer and the Solitary,
respectively. The third and fourth books consist of a conversation/debate between the Wanderer and the Solitary regarding the
truth of Religion and the virtue of Mankind. The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth books introduce the character of the Pastor
and consist largely of the Pastor explaining the life stories of many of the townspeople who lie buried in the country-
churchyard. In the final two books, all of the aforementioned characters travel to the Parsonage, are introduced to the family
of the Pastor, and eventually part ways.

The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons is a long narrative poem by William

Wordsworth, written initially in 1807-08, but not finally revised and published until 1815. It is set during the Rising of the
North in 1569, and combines historical and legendary subject-matter.

The White Doe of Rylstone opens outside Bolton Abbey in Wharfedale, where the poet sees the white doe enter the churchyard
and lie down by one particular grave, where it is recognized as a regular visitor by the parishioners. The poem then moves
back in time to Emily Norton at Rylstone Hall; at her fathers command she embroiders a banner for his followers, who are to
rise in rebellion. Emilys brother Richard tries unsuccessfully to dissuade their father from this course, then resolves to follow
them unarmed, in the hope that he can still dissuade his father. Norton's band of soldiers, including other brothers of Emily,
joins forces with those of the Earl of Northumberland and other Catholic rebels, and they march to Wetherby. On the approach
of Queen Elizabeth's army the rebels fall back in retreat. The poem then returns to Rylstone Hall, where Emily encounters the
white doe by moonlight. She sends an old friend of her father to get news of his fate; he returns to say that her father is taken
prisoner, and that he has told Richard to regain the banner and take it to Bolton Abbey, where it can serve as an emblem of the
purity of his motives. Richard almost accomplishes this task, but he is surprised by a party of the royal army and is killed.
When Rylstone Hall suffers devastation Emily flees, and only returns years later, there to find the same white doe, which
henceforth becomes her faithful friend, going wherever she goes. Emily at last dies and is buried at Bolton Abbey. The
mystery of why the white doe visits the grave is thus explained.

The historical parts of the story of The White Doe are taken from a ballad called "The Rising in the North", which Wordsworth
had read in Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, and also from Nicolson and Burn's The History and Antiquities of the
Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland.

Peter Bell: A Tale in Verse is a long narrative poem by William Wordsworth, written in 1798, but not
published until 1819.

In a tone of straight-faced humour[1] the prologue tells of the poet's travels over the face of the earth and through the
heavens in a boat of the imagination, which urges him to choose some exotic or otherworldly theme. The poet
rejects the suggestion, and opts for the more homely subject of Peter Bell. The poem proper begins with a
description of him as a hard-hearted sinner, impervious to the softening influence of nature, who makes his living as
an itinerant hawker (or potter, in Wordsworth's northern expression) of earthenware. One night, while walking
through Swaledale by night, he loses his way. He comes across an ass standing untended, gazing into the river
Swale, and he tries to ride away on it, but the ass does not respond to his furious beating of it. Peter sees the face of
a corpse in the river, and faints from shock. On recovering consciousness he drags the dead man, once the owner of
the ass, onto dry land. The ass now consents to start for home, taking Peter with him. A loud cry is heard in the
distance, which, though Peter does not know it, comes from the dead man's young son, who is searching for his
father. Unnerved by this, and by the sight of the bloody wounds he has inflicted on the ass, Peter begins to feel
unaccustomed pangs of conscience. His mind turns to his many past sins, and as he passes an outdoor Methodist
meeting his heart responds to the preacher's calls for repentance. The ass reaches the home of the dead man, whose
wife is waiting for him. She learns that she is a widow, and her children orphans.

And now is Peter taught to feel

That man's heart is a holy thing;
And Nature, through a world of death,
Breathes into him a second breath,
More searching than the breath of spring.[2]

The poem closes with Peter downcast by his experiences, but eventually emerging as a better man.
"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 that England has stagnated morally by comparison to Milton's period. To this end,
Wordsworth pleads for Milton to rather messianically "raise us up, return to us again; / And give us manners,
virtue, freedom, power."n the six subsequent lines (the sestet) following the first eight lines (the octave),
Wordsworth explains why Milton could improve the English condition. Milton's soul, he explains, was as bright
and noble as a star and "dwelt apart" from the crowd, not feeling the urge to conform to norms. Milton's voice
resembled "the sea", "pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free". Furthermore, Milton never disdained the ordinary
nature of life, but instead "travel[ed] on life's common way", remaining happy, pure (cheerful godliness), and
humble (taking the "lowliest duties" on himself).

"The World Is Too Much with Us" is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it,

Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself
from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). Like most Italian
sonnets, its 14 lines are written in iambic pentameter.

"We are Seven" is a poem written by William Wordsworth and published in his Lyrical Ballads. It describes a

discussion between an adult poetic speaker and a "little cottage girl" about the number of brothers and sisters who dwell
with her. The poem turns on the question of whether to count two dead siblings as part of the family.

Wordsworth claimed that the idea for We are Seven came to him while travelling alone across England in October 1793 after
becoming separated from his friend, William Calvert. Wordsworth came to Goodrich Castle and met a little girl who would
serve as the model for the little girl in We are Seven.

In 1820, the poem was republished as a broadside and titled "The Little Maid and the Gentleman".[6]The poem is a dialogue
between a narrator who serves as a questioner and a little girl, with part of the evolving first stanza contributed by
Coleridge.[8] The poem is written in ballad form.

The title, Lines Written (or Composed) a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the
Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798, is often abbreviated simply to Tintern Abbey, although that building does not
appear within the poem. It was written by William Wordsworth after a walking tour with his sister in this section of the
Welsh Borders. The description of his encounters with the countryside on the banks of the River Wye grows into an outline
of his general philosophy
 In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet?

The European magazine

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland part of the
scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District.
Who is "London, 1802" addressed to?
Milton
Elegiac Stanzas is a poem by William Wordsworth, originally published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).[1] Its full
title is "Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont."

The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770
1850) between 1798 and 1801. All but one were first published during 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads.

The poems were written during a sho as a series they focus on the poet's longing for the company of his friend
Coleridge, who had stayed in England, and on his increasing impatience with his sister Dorothy, who had travelled
with him abroad.
The "Lucy poems" consist of "Strange fits of passion have I known", "She dwelt among the untrodden ways", "I
travelled among unknown men", "Three years she grew in sun and shower", and "A slumber did my spirit seal"

1. Where does "The Solitary Reaper" take place?

Scotland

2. Who is singing in "The Solitary Reaper"?

A beautiful girl

3. How will the speaker of "The Solitary Reaper" remember the young girl?

He will carry her song in his heart

4. What is rare about "The Soiltary Reaper"?

It does not come from Wordsworth's own experiences

5. Who is "London, 1802" addressed to?

John Milton
6. Why does Wordsworth want Milton to come back in "London, 1802"?

He wants Milton to show England how to be virtuous again

7. What form is "London, 1802" written in?

Sonnet

8. What meter is a typical sonnet written in?

Iambic Pentameter

9. What kind of imagery does Wordsworth use to describe Milton?

Natural imagery

10. What is Wordsworth looking at in "Composed upon Westminster Bridge"?

A city

11. What time of day does "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" take place during?

Early morning

12. Who was Wordsworth traveling with when he was inspired to write "Composed upon Westminster Bridge"?

His sister

13. In which poem does Wordsworth write "Come forth into the light of things, / Let Nature be your Teacher"?

"The Tables Turned"

14. What does Wordsworth tell his friend to stop doing in "The Tables Turned"?

Reading

15. What does Wordsworth tell his friend to do in "The Tables Turned"?

Go outside

16. The following is from which poem? "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: / Little we see in
Nature that is ours."
 "The world is too much with us"

17. Why does the speaker think the little girl in "We Are Seven" only has five siblings?

Two of her siblings are dead

18. Who did Wordsworth write "We Are Seven" with?

Samuel Coleridge

19. What does the girl in "We Are Seven" like to do near her dead siblings?

Sew, sing and eat her dinner

20. Why is the speaker sad in "Lines Written in Early Spring?"

Because humans don't enjoy nature

21. Where is "Lines Written in Early Spring" set?

In a grove

22. How many stanzas are in "A slumber did my spirit seal"?

Two

23. What form is "A slumber did my spirit seal" written in?

Ballad

24. Which of the following poems is a sonnet?

"The world is too much with us"

25. In what part of "A slumber did my spirit seal" does the death occur?

Between the two stanzas

26. A poem described by Wordsworth in 1843 as 'a picture of my daughter

Characteristics of a child three years old
27. The year when Wordsworth began writing his only play, The Borderers
1796
28. A poem inspired by his daughter, Catharine, who died two years (1812) before the poem was written
Surprized by joy-impatient as the Wind
29. Wordsworth's poem dedicated to the eldest son of S.T. Coleridge is
To H.C., Six Years Old
30. The year Wordsworth received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University
1839
31. Wordsworth's belief that God had so created human beings that their most important feelings would be
stirred by beautiful scenery, thus keeping them alive and healthy, is expressed in the preface of:
Lyrical Ballads