FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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Blake
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Wordsworth
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Keats
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Tennyson
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Detailed explanation-1: -This manuscript copy of William Wordsworth’s ‘The Solitary Reaper’, later published in Poems in Two Volumes (1807), is preserved at the British Library as part of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Wilkinson, the man whose writing inspired it.
Detailed explanation-2: -"The Solitary Reaper” is a lyric poem by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works. The poem was inspired by him and his sister Dorothy’s stay at the village of Strathyre in the parish of Balquhidder in Scotland in September 1803.
Detailed explanation-3: -“The Solitary Reaper” was written in 1805 and published in 1807 in Wordsworth’s collection Poems, in Two Volumes.
Detailed explanation-4: -"The Solitary Reaper” is a poem about music: the song a Scottish girl sings as she cuts hay with a sickle. Though the poem’s narrator cannot understand what the girl is actually singing about, the girl’s song sticks with him, its melancholy beauty echoing in his head “long after” its sound has faded.
Detailed explanation-5: -“The Solitary Reaper” is a ballad by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth.