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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382146)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Sep 19
The name of William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) is probably known to most of you. He was an English poet of the Romantic era, and was widely recognised for his literary writings. One of his well-known poems was ‘Daffodils’ which also...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
26 Mar 18
I am always interested in looking at the editorial choices behind literary anthologies, (collection of works by various authors, rather than a book of writings by a single writer).
A book like Best Ghost Stories Of All Time or...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
21 Feb 18
Why on Earth
Did you work for Wordsworth
But not for me?
I write proper poetry
I saw some Daffodils & thought ‘So flippiin’ wot!"
I traipsed up & down yer silly hills
This poem’s all I got.
Yer never gave me any...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382146)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 May 17
While we were in England in 2015 we visited a town called Cockermouth in Cumberland. Here, the National Trust looks after the house where poet William Wordsworth was born.
It has been fitted out as it might have been when...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
22 Oct 15
Wordsworth’s short poem (just nine lines long) about the thrill he feels when he sees a rainbow in the sky after the rain. He describes being amazed and delighted by rainbows as a child and that the same sense of magic strikes him...
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