I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

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I wondered lonely as a cloud composed by William Wordsworth who was born on 7 April 1770 in Cumbria. He attended Hawkshead Grammar School, where his love of poetry was firmly established. Before his final semester in Cambridge, he went to Europe, an experience that influenced both his poetry and his political sensibilities. He began to write poetry while he was at school, but none was published. Afterwards , he married Mary Hutchinson and had five children together. The most important in the poetic life of Wordsworth was his 1795 meeting with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was with Coleridge that he published the famous Lyrical Ballads in 1798. He was devastated by the death of his daughter Dora and later he lost his will to compose poems. He died at Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850, leaving his wife Mary to publish The Prelude three months later.

There is no frigate like a book composed by Emily Dickinson who was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She seldom left home and visitors were few. The people whom she did contact had a huge impact on her poetry. Her poetry was influenced by metaphysical poets of seventeenth century England. She admired the poetry of Robert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Keats. The first work was published in 1890 and the last in 1955. She died in Amherst in …show more content…

She was among of the pantheon of great poets and at the age of eight, she started to publish her first poem. Afterwards she travelled to England on a Fulbright Scholarship where she met Ted Hughes. After married with Ted Hughes within a months, she had Frieda as her first child and published her first book of poetry, The Colossus. Later, Plath’s writing became frantic following a traumatic appendix operation and the birth of their son, Nicholas. The stress of her life became too much to bear then she committed suicide by gas in her cold London flat, aged

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