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Unit 9: Daffodils by William Wordsworth

9.2 Death Notes

William Wordsworth died by aggravating a case of pleurisy on 23 April 1850, and was buried
at St. Oswald’s church in Grasmere. His widow Mary published his lengthy autobiographical
“poem to Coleridge” as The Prelude several months after his death. Though this failed to arouse
great interest in 1850, it has since come to be recognised as his masterpiece.
William Wordsworth was orphaned at an early age and suffered from anosmia, an inability to
smell. His masterpiece “The Prelude” was not published during his lifetime.

9.3 Major Works of William Wordsworth

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798)
“Simon Lee”
“We are Seven”
“Lines Written in Early Spring”

“Expostulation and Reply”
“The Tables Turned”
“The Thorn”

“Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”
Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800)
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
“Strange fits of passion have I known”
“She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways”

“Three years she grew”
“A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal”
“I travelled among unknown men”

“Lucy Gray”
“The Two April Mornings”
“Nutting”
“The Ruined Cottage”
“Michael”

“The Kitten At Play”
Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
“Resolution and Independence”

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Also known as “Daffodils”
“My Heart Leaps Up”
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
“Ode to Duty”

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