Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought
by William Wordsworth
‘Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought’ speaks on nature, death, and humanity’s impact on the earth.
William Wordsworth was an English poet whose verse is some of the most influential and important in the English language. Read more about William Wordsworth.
Some of Wordsworth’s most famous poems include ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,’ ‘Lucy Gray‘, ‘The World is Too Much With Us,’ ‘My Heart Leaps Up,’ and ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.’
‘Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought’ speaks on nature, death, and humanity’s impact on the earth.
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‘To Toussaint L’Ouverture’ by William Wordsworth is a sonnet dedicated to François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a renowned leader of the Haitian revolution. He transformed the slave rebellion into a revolutionary movement.
William Wordsworth was certainly not without his share of tragedy, and this poem, “We Are Seven”, is one which evokes this tragic feeling.