Solitude Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) farm boy Introduction

Introduction

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Solitude Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) farm boy IntroductionA literary sanctuary for what Shakespeare called sessions of sweet silent thought, this exquisite gathering of poems speaks to the consolations of solitude. Here is Wordsworth wandering lonely as a cloud; Poe confiding all I loved, I loved alone; Yeatss communion with the deep hearts core; and Han Shans heart of a hermit, clean as a white lotus. From Sir Edward Dyers My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is, to the spiritual searching of the Transcendentalists, to