Summary of Upon Westminster Bridge Poem
This post aims to provide an analysis and stanza wise summary of Upon Westminster Bridge poem, by the famous Romantic writer William Wordsworth. Summary of Upon Westminster Bridge Poem “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” ~ William Wordsworth ABOUT THE AUTHOR William Wordsworth, one of the most famous poets of the Romantic era, was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England on April 7, 1770. His mother died when he was 7, and he was an orphan at 13. He graduated in 1791, from Cambridge University. (Summary of Upon Westminster Bridge Poem) He was a great follower of the French Revolution that began in 1789. In the year 1795, Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge along with whom he composed his famous collection Lyrical Ballads (1798). The Lyrical Ballads helped Romanticism take a hold on English Poetry. In the same year of the publication of the Lyrical Ballads , Wordsworth also began writing his autobiographical poem The Prelude, and published it posthu...