DESOLATE NATURE

What exactly did Wordsworth mean by the word “upon” in, Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree ? Lena Tortorice addresses this specific...

Sarah – with an “h” is the traditional spelling and its origin is Hebrew meaning princess. However Coleridge speaks of a Sara without an “h”...

Pride – yet another deadly sin… In Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree a stranger tells us of a kind of man whose soul was fed and sus...

Envy – it is one of the seven deadly sins also known as the Cardinal Sins. The Christian church uses the Cardinal Sins to instruct its fol...

A delusive art is what Charlotte Smith defines the game of a muse in Sonnet I. Therefore it is not surprising that the tone o...

In the sonnet “On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress” the color purple is representative of the blood flowing thr...

For five years Wordsworth travels about and writing his ballads and for five years he has not seen the very spot in which he stands. “Tinter...