Talk:London, 1802

This is not the correct poem. The one that is on this page currently is "The Same" by William Wordsworth, and not "London, 1802".

Well, it's the right poem now. I looked it up in a Cambridge poetry collection as well as online. --Massyold 16:37, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

It seems like a lot of this is just one guy's opinion... is there anything to back this up? Omgitsmonica 17:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, the commentary is utterly without insight, not in anyway penetrating the context or inner implication of the poem, but simply restating them in a tautological, parrot-like fashion. The rhyme scheme and Petrarchian sonnet background are common knowledge. The article should be removed until something of note can be offered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.78.25.46 (talk) 02:12, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Though many anthologies, textbooks, critics, and commentators refer to "London, 1802" as "a sonnet," the title actually referred to a set of five sonnets, small Roman numerals i-v. It was the second sonnet in the series that became most famous and most frequently anthologized, and it is to that sonnet that the current Wikipedia article refers. For the text of all five sonnets, see The Oxford Book of English Verse or visit the relevant pages of the Poetry Archives: http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/10900/. Paleodoc (talk) 18:15, 10 January 2010 (UTC)