Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkWilliam Wordsworth

The Seven Sisters; or, The Solitude of Binnorie

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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Early Reading Notes on Ballads

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“Wordsworth's "Seven Sisters." Exquisite metrical beauty!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Early Reading Notes on Ballads." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Fuller names Wordsworth and his poem 'Seven Sisters' (full title: 'The Seven Sisters; or, The Solitude of Binnorie'), first published in Poems in Two Volumes (1807). She praises its 'exquisite metrical beauty' and quotes four lines. The quoted stanza ('Some close behind, some side by side / Like clouds in stormy weather, / They run, and cry, nay, let us die, / And let us die together') matches Wordsworth's text.