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Works of William Wordsworth: We are Seven

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
We are Seven

Wordsworth says this poem is based on an actual conversation that he had
with a little girl whom he met within the area of Goodrich Castle in the year
1793. Wordsworth tells us that the meeting occurred as he journeyed to North
Wales where he spent the summer of 1793 with the father of his friend,
Robert Jones. In the introduction of "We Are Seven" he relates further that
this poem was composed specifically for publication in the Lyrical Ballads,
the plan of which was conceived by Wordsworth and Coleridge in the spring of
1798.

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