Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay
Written by William Wordsworth
Narrated by LibriVox Community
()
About this audiobook
In 1842 the government awarded Wordsworth a civil list pension amounting to £300 a year. With the death in 1843 of Robert Southey, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate. He initially refused the honour, saying he was too old, but accepted when Prime Minister Robert Peel assured him "you shall have nothing required of you" (he became the only laureate to write no official poetry). When his daughter, Dora, died in 1847, his production of poetry came to a standstill. (Summary from Wikipedia)
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth, in the English Lake District, the son of a lawyer. He was one of five children and developed a close bond with his only sister, Dorothy, whom he lived with for most of his life. At the age of seventeen, shortly after the deaths of his parents, Wordsworth went to St John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduating visited Revolutionary France. Upon returning to England he published his first poem and devoted himself wholly to writing. He became great friends with other Romantic poets and collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads. In 1843, he succeeded Robert Southey as Poet Laureate and died in the year ‘Prelude’ was finally published, 1850.
More audiobooks from William Wordsworth
The Poetry Of William Wordsworth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Poetry of the Romantics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLondon: A City in Words Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay
Related audiobooks
A Missed Murder Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStuff and Nonsense: Poems by Lewis Carroll Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pout-Pout Fish Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Treasure Island and the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Robert Louis Stevenson Combo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShort Story Collection Vol. 020 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShort Ghost and Horror Collection 012 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Wanderer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chilling Horror Stories: Volume 2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/530 Party Songs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwelfth Night (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGetting There: a novel.... and more! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJust So Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Balzac, Maupassant & Flaubert: 3 Best French Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings9 French Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwelfth Night (version 2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Adventure of the Blanched Soldier: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Captain's Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Apothecary's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Outcast of the Islands Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwelfth Night Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMore Bab Ballads Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpeedy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Happiness Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Great Expectations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Burning Island Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Four Mark Twain Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsImmortal North Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Her Lady's Honor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Seer of Lost Sands Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Poetry For You
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Other Eden Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Milk and Honey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf: A New Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Citizen: An American Lyric Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Temple Folk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spirits in Bondage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Metamorphoses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Raven and Other Poems: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Home Body Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Inferno of Dante Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5W. B. Yeats: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poetry of Walt Whitman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay
0 ratings0 reviews