Of his later work, The Prelude, published posthumously, is the most significant. Generally considered the greatest of the Romantic poets, Wordsworth's most creative poetry is his early work with its main themes of the English countryside and the revolutionary spirit of the age. Rather, he feels some trepidation about this situation. Unlike the Greek Cynics and the Nietzschean modernists, though, Wordsworth is not looking to flaunt this in people’s faces. He spent some time in France shortly after the French Revolution whose cause he espoused and in 1797 moved to Somerset with his favourite sister, Dorothy, where he developed a close association with Coleridge. It would appear that Wordsworth is an old-fashioned Cynic, staring baldly at man-made conventions. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. William Wordsworth That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Both his parents died by the time he was thirteen and he was brought up by relatives. William Wordsworth There is a luxury in self-dispraise And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. He was educated at Hawkshead grammar school and at St. John's College, Cambridge. This entry was posted in Exhibitions, Experiment Station and tagged art and poetry, clock, drawings, photorealism, poems, poetry, portraits, Whitfield Lovell, William Wordsworth. Turn wheresoeer I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no. Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, the son of an attorney. William Wordsworth, Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, 1804 Whitfield Lovell: The Kin Series and Related Works is on view through Jan. Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. William Wordsworth, the greatest of the Romantic poets, gloried in nature, but here he reflects upon the inspiration of urban London as he experienced it from Westminster Bridge. In years that bring the philosophic mind. RT whaeavee: What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind (Wordsworth) 16 yrs on. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. ![]() In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesnt know what he is doing. Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower William Wordsworth quotes about Business. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. What though the radiance which was once so bright That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. ![]() Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song! Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
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