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  1. 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

    poeticous.com/william-wordswor

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

  2. "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

  3. 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." victorianweb.org/sculpture/wool
    ner/32.html

  4. 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

  5. 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: rpo.library.utoronto.ca/conten

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

  6. 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? 📜💡
    gutenberg.org/cache/epub/76806 #DigitalAge #IntellectualProperty #PoetryInsights #Romanticism #HackerNews #ngated

  7. 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

  8. 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

    poeticous.com/william-wordswor

  9. 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

  10. ‘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

  11. "To me the meanest flower that blows can give
    Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

    from Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.

    #Wordsworth

  12. "Our meddling intellect
    Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: --
    We murder to dissect"

    The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth

    #poetry #wordsworth

  13. Thanks to the human heart by which we live,

    Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,

    To me the meanest flower that blows can give

    Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

    Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1802-4) By William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

    #poetry #wordsworth