Childhood William Fulford PC Fleming 1 1856
blank verse iambic pentameter lyric
<artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>This poem is by William Fulford. It is written in blank verse, and is certainly indebted to Wordsworth. The theme of this poem — looking back to childhood as “the gate of life” — recalls Wordsworth’s “<title level="wrk">Ode: Intimations of Immortality”, particularly in Fulford’s image of childhood as “the Paradise / Whence ye departed”.

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First printed in <hi rend="i">The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine</hi> , November, 1856.

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The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine text The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine text The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (November issue) November, 1856 0