The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 (of 8, contains 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud')
William Wordsworth
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Volume three of Wordsworth's Poetical Works collects poems of his middle years, including the lyric England knows best, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. The daffodils poem, composed after a walk with his sister Dorothy, turns a remembered field of flowers into a theory of memory itself: nature stored, then repaid with interest in solitude.
Sonnets, memorial verses, and meditations on time surround the famous lyric. The Lake District's poet is at his most musical here, chiming public sonnets about liberty with private recollection. For readers working through the eight volumes, the third shows Romanticism's everyday sublime at working strength, neither manifesto nor epic, but lived attention.
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| CREATOR | William Wordsworth |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 716 KB |
| LICENSE | Project Gutenberg License |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |