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Resolution and Independence
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<p> "Resolution and Independence" is a <a href="/facts/Lyric_poem/KeBqhztP">lyric poem</a> by the English <a href="/facts/Romantic_poetry/fUrslhAh">Romantic poet</a> <a href="/facts/William_Wordsworth/ISecKTd9">William Wordsworth</a>, composed in 1802 and published in 1807 in <i><a href="/facts/Poems_in_Two_Volumes/MAbojVD5">Poems in Two Volumes</a></i>. The poem contains twenty stanzas written in modified <a href="/facts/Rhyme_royal/YPwoSIJd">rhyme royal</a>, and describes Wordsworth's encounter with a <a href="/facts/Leech_collector/TggWyjjj">leech-gatherer</a> near his home in the <a href="/facts/Lake_District/yuPLDXT8">Lake District</a> of <a href="/facts/England/U9mE5bGL">England</a>. </p>