BBC bosses hope the poem will become as popular as William Blake's Jerusalem ... The Soldier by Rupert Brooke or Daffodils by Wordsworth." A panel of judges, including eminent poets, will select ...

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

In 1804, poet William Wordsworth took one of the most consequential walks in 19th-century English literature. After happening upon a swath of yellow daffodils along Ullswater in England’s Lake ...

Perhaps the most famous is William Wordsworth, who wrote many poems about the Cumbrian landscape where he lived hundreds of years ago. His poem 'Daffodils' is still well recited around the world ...

5.75 x 4 in. (14.6 x 10.2 cm.) ...

Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge first published in 1798, changed the course of British poetry. Growing up in the Lake District, Wordsworth ...

18 x 12 in. (45.7 x 30.5 cm.) ...

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Lyric poetry refers to a short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker’s personal emotions and feelings. Historically intended to be sung and accompany musical instrumentation, ...

Middle School Teach This Poem Teach This Poem: “[I wandered lonely as a Cloud]” by William Wordsworth Elementary School, High School, Middle School Teach This Poem Teach This Poem: “The Symbolic Life” ...