The form of this Wordsworthian sonnet refers back to 16th and 17th century sonnets, much like the reference to Proteus recalls Milton’s description of the Old Man of the Sea, and Triton Spenser’s figure of the sea-god.
Tag: 19th century poets
A Bard used to be much more than a mere wordsmith.
“One man may sweeten a whole time.”, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said of Washington Allson.
