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Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. By William Wordsworth. Earth has not any thing to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by. A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear. The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
“Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” is a sonnet written by William Wordsworth, arguably the most prominent of the English Romantic Poets. The title marks a specific place and time—a viewpoint over London’s River Thames during the Industrial Revolution—and is typical of Wordsworth, whose work often deals with both the ...
His poem Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 is a celebration of this city. Westminster Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge stretching over the River Thames, linking Westminster and Lambeth.
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" is a Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames, viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807.
Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth. Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by. A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like...
Sep 3, 2014 · Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth - Poems | Academy of American Poets. William Wordsworth. 1770 –. 1850. Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by. A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear. The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. This poem offers the city as landscape, reconnects the city to the landscape and the sky. The power that Wordsworth typically feels in the natural world, in this urban world, is human and asleep.
Wordsworth, an aesthetic, that is, a lover of the beauty especially of the natural world, praises the urban landscape seen from Westminster Bridge. He is enthralled by the clear early morning...
This poem’s title, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802,” tells the reader its setting: William Wordsworth is in London on the bridge that crosses the Thames River by the houses...
A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear. The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie. Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep.
