Williams Wordsworth was a British poet. He was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District and spent most of his lifetime in the Lake District of Northern England only. He started the English Romantic movement with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with their collection "LYRICAL BALLADS" in 1798. His work as poet mainly based on topics involving the life of children, common people, poor mass, and nature. He used very simple wordings to express his feelings through poems.
The beautiful landscape of ...
William Blake was an English Poet. He was born on 28th November 1757 in London and lived up till 12th August 1827. Apart from writing poems, he was a painter and a printmaker. His work is considered as the benchmark in the history of visual arts as well as poetry. Blake's visionary poetry is the combination of both his intelligence and wonderful creativeness. However, during his lifetime there was some misunderstanding that cast shadow to his career as a poet ...
A Conversation
We talked with open heart, and tongue
Affectionate and true,
A pair of friends, though I was young,
And Matthew seventy-two.
We lay beneath a spreading oak,
Beside a mossy seat;
And from the turf a fountain broke
And gurgled at our feet.
`Now, Matthew!' said I, `let us match
This water's pleasant tune
With some old border-song, or catch
That suits a summer's noon;
`Or of the church-clock and the chimes
Sing here beneath the shade
That half-mad thing of witty rhymes
Which you last April made!'
In silence Matthew lay, and eyed
The spring ...