Black, Joseph, et al. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Concise Edition, Volume B. 3rd ed. Peterborough (ON): Broadview Press, 2019. From the above book read: Wordsworth: from Lyrical Ballads, “I wandered lonely as a Cloud,” “Intimations of Immortality” (174-204, 210-212, 214-217) After reading: Write a 2-page response paper to the following prompt related to the reading — According to Wordsworth, poetry is made from emotion “recollected” in tranquility. The “spontaneous overflow” of powerful feeling is transformed into the common language of humanity. This explanation places memory as front and center in the work of creating literature. What poems that you read make you think of Wordsworth’s theory and why?
