April 15 –
William Wordsworth and his sister
Dorothy, walking by
Ullswater near their home in the
Lake District of England, come across a "long belt" of daffodils, a circumstance which inspires his poem "
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", written in
1804, first published in
1807 and in revised form in
1815. It is titled "The Daffodils" in some anthologies.
May 3–9 – Having recollected in tranquility while walking on Barton Fell near Ullswater an experience of despondency,
William Wordsworth writes "The Leech-Gatherer", the first draft of his poem "
Resolution and Independence" (published in 1807).
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode, first published October 4, 1802, in the Morning Post (see also Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, below, in which the poem is again published this year)
John Blair Linn, The Powers of Genius, A Poem, in Three Parts, By John Blair Linn ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, Philadelphia: John Conrad, & Co.; sold by M. and J. Conrad & Co.,
United States[5]
April 15 –
William Wordsworth and his sister
Dorothy, walking by
Ullswater near their home in the
Lake District of England, come across a "long belt" of daffodils, a circumstance which inspires his poem "
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", written in
1804, first published in
1807 and in revised form in
1815. It is titled "The Daffodils" in some anthologies.
May 3–9 – Having recollected in tranquility while walking on Barton Fell near Ullswater an experience of despondency,
William Wordsworth writes "The Leech-Gatherer", the first draft of his poem "
Resolution and Independence" (published in 1807).
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode, first published October 4, 1802, in the Morning Post (see also Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, below, in which the poem is again published this year)
John Blair Linn, The Powers of Genius, A Poem, in Three Parts, By John Blair Linn ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, Philadelphia: John Conrad, & Co.; sold by M. and J. Conrad & Co.,
United States[5]