• Title page of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. "The Idiot Boy" is a poem written by William Wordsworth, a representative of the Romantic movement in English literature.
  • On this special episode I will read The Idiot Boy by William Wordsworth. This poem was published in the 1798 Lyrical Ballads and it was very controversial.
  • And now that Johnny is just going, Though Betty's in a mighty flurry, She gently pats the Pony's side, On which her Idiot Boy must ride, And seems no longer in a...
  • 'Tis eight o'clock,—a clear March night, The Moon is up—the Sky is blue, The Owlet in the moonlight air, He shouts from nobody knows where; He lengthens out his lonely shout...
  • And he is all in travelling trim, And by the moonlight, Betty Foy Has up upon the saddle set, The like was never heard of yet, Him whom she loves, her idiot boy.
  • And now that Johnny is just going, Though Betty's in a mighty flurry, She gently pats the Pony's side, On which her Idiot Boy must ride, And seems no longer in a...
  • And he is all in travelling trim, And by the moonlight, Betty Foy Has up upon the saddle set, The like was never heard of yet, Him whom she loves, her idiot boy.
  • Willian Wordsworth's ballad "The Idiot Boy" portrays the poet's dedication to establishing a poetry that involves simple, rural people in their natural environment.
  • Analysis (ai): "The Idiot Boy" by William Wordsworth is notable for its depiction of the simple pleasures of life and the bond between mother and son.
  • And Johnny burrs, and laughs aloud; Whether in cunning or in joy I cannot tell; but while he laughs, Betty a drunken pleasure quaffs To hear again her Idiot Boy.