#wordsworth — Public Fediverse posts

At the top of Sutton Bank, near Thirsk in North Yorkshire, there is a walk along the west-facing escarpment with views across the Vale of York and over to the Pennines.
The author James Herriot famously described the vista from here as "the finest in England!"
Far off on the horizon, if it is clear enough, you should have little trouble in spotting the cooling towers of the Drax Power Station complex near Selby, roughly halfway between Leeds and Hull.
The poet William Wordsworth (the chap who loved wandering lonely as a cloud) and his wife Mary walked to the Sutton Bank clifftop on their wedding day in October 1802 and was so inspired by the view he wrote a sonnet.
Oddly enough, his lines make no reference to the Drax Power Station!
#england #yorkshire #suttonbank #view #landscape #wordsworth #thirsk #photography

‘Animal Tranquillity and Decay’ by William Wordsworth

https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/william-wordsworth-poem-animal-tranquillity-and-decay

#poem #poetry #english #literature #wordsworth

I shiver, Spirit fierce and bold,
At thought of what I now behold:
As vapours breathed from dungeons cold,
Strike pleasure dead,
So sadness comes from out the mould
Where Burns is laid…

—William Wordsworth, “At the Grave of Burns, 1803, Seven Years After His Death”

William Wordsworth has a go at a Standard Habbie

2/4

https://www.poeticous.com/william-wordsworth/ii-at-the-grave-of-burns-1803-seven-years-after-his-death

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Wordsworth #WilliamWordsworth #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism

The Prelude to the storm

#ThunderstormASongOrPoem
#hashtaggames
#Wordsworth

"Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes." - Wordsworth (Illustration by Jane Elizabeth Giraud #BookWormSat #Wordsworth #RomanticPoets #poetry

Can't let the day go without remembering that #Wordsworth was born #OTD 1770. One of the flowers carved on his memorial stone would be the celandine, which is out now: "There is a flower that shall be mine, /
'Tis the little Celandine." https://victorianweb.org/sculpture/wool
ner/32.html

Yu Liu's book "From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism" covers Anglo-Chinese relations 1600-1830 and their influence (via Spinoza) on #RomanticLiterature - e.g. #Coleridge & #Wordsworth - & art & landscape gardening

#Romanticism #EnglishLiterature #China #philosophy #CulturalStudies

Radical activist and eventual poet laureate William Wordsworth, once proclaimed:

"Men who do not wear fine clothes can feel deeply."

Read "Michael" and understand what he was going on about: https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/michael-pastoral-poem

#wordsworth #poetry #activism #nature #pastoral #romanticism #british #existential #fineClothes

Explore more than 3,000 British gardens at reduced prices this spring https://www.allforgardening.com/1661883/explore-more-than-3000-british-gardens-at-reduced-prices-this-spring/ #BlenheimPalace #destination #england #garden #Scotland #Tourism #travel #uk #Wordsworth

Ah, nothing like a 19th-century poet pontificating on #copyright law, because that's exactly what the world needed. 🙄 Apparently, #Wordsworth was ahead of his time, foreseeing the digital age's struggle with intellectual property—because who else but a Romantic poet could truly grasp the complexities of legal frameworks? 📜💡
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/76806/pg76806-images.html #DigitalAge #IntellectualProperty #PoetryInsights #Romanticism #HackerNews #ngated

wrote nearly 3000 words about Romanticism, subjectivity, magic, and materialism because someone pinged me in a discord server about it.



https://calliopemagic.neocities.org/posts/romanticlonging

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”
#quote #book #philosophy #writing #books #Wordsworth #inspiration #art

http://contentcatnip.com/2024/09/20/we-see-into-the-life-of-things/

#Rumi #Wordsworth #college #poetry

#Wordsworth
Well he might’ve had a way with words but his pruning skills were shocking
Dove Cottage #Grasmere

At the Grave of Burns, 1803
Seven Years After His Death
William Wordsworth

I shiver, Spirit fierce and bold,
At thought of what I now behold:
As vapours breathed from dungeons cold,
Strike pleasure dead,
So sadness comes from out the mould
Where Burns is laid…

2/3

#Romanticism #literature #poetry #18thcentury #Wordsworth

https://www.poeticous.com/william-wordsworth/ii-at-the-grave-of-burns-1803-seven-years-after-his-death

I wrote something about Wordsworth and a poet's sense of purpose.

https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/through-a-veil

#poetry #wordsworth #gunn #literarytheory

@george in other news it's at #wordsworth ~ https://www.wordsworth.co.za/products/from-the-river-to-the-sea?_pos=3&_ss=r

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 12 https://quiltr.com/?p=24459 Forty year old bulbs • every year a yellow • wonder – daffodils … #daffodils #dothework #garden #haiku #NaPoWriMo #poem #poetry #process #wordsworth

Wordsworth Grasmere (Dove Cottage) has released a new location-based app, 'Dorothy Wordsworth Walks', with extracts from her journals and poetry.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C42g6yIoZyn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

#Grasmere #Wordsworth #Dorothywordsworth #lakedistrict #Cumbria #walking #newtopographics #romanticism

This book has survived all tests of time - we lost a lot of books from that timeframe to termites ;-) a gift to my grandfather from his dear friend.
And just because it’s still around I read one random poem once in a while… they’re fun … but my humble opinion is that the man was overrated… #Shelley’s works appeal to my sensibilities more…

#poetry #wordsworth #english

‘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’

#FotoMontag #maine #woods #wald #winter #Wordsworth #poem