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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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Over the course of roughly fifty years, Wordsworth wrote well over 500 sonnets. His first published poem was a sonnet and his sonnet sequence The River Duddon was among the most successful and admired works he ever published. Many of his best sonnets appeared in Poems, In Two Volumes (1807). While Wordsworth evidently admired the sonnets of Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, and Helen Maria Williams, his poetic allegiance lay most strongly with Milton. Wordsworth’s prodigious output of sonnets demonstrates a remarkable variety of subjects and concerns, ranging from the political to the personal to the philosophical to the topographical. He succeeded Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843.
Title: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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Over the course of roughly fifty years, Wordsworth wrote well over 500 sonnets.
His first published poem was a sonnet and his sonnet sequence The River Duddon was among the most successful and admired works he ever published.
Many of his best sonnets appeared in Poems, In Two Volumes (1807).
While Wordsworth evidently admired the sonnets of Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, and Helen Maria Williams, his poetic allegiance lay most strongly with Milton.
Wordsworth’s prodigious output of sonnets demonstrates a remarkable variety of subjects and concerns, ranging from the political to the personal to the philosophical to the topographical.
He succeeded Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843.
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