Who wrote solitary reaper?
“The Solitary Reaper” is a ballad by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works in English literature.[1] In it, Wordsworth describes in the first person, present tense, how he is amazed and moved by a Scottish Highlands girl who sings as she reaps grain in a solitary field. Composed in 1805, the poem was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). Each of its four stanzas is eight lines long and written in iambic tetrameter, with a rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d, though in the first and last stanzas the “A” rhyme is off. ‘”The Solitary Reaper” is one of Wordsworth’s most famous post-Lyrical Ballads lyrics.[1] The words of the reaper’s song are incomprehensible to the speaker, so his attention is free to focus on the tone, expressive beauty, and the blissful mood it creates in him. The poem functions to ‘praise the beauty of music and its fluid expressive beauty, the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling” that Wordsworth identified at the heart
