Which, out of the following is not a poem by Wordsworth?

Option 4 : 'London'

The correct answer is London.

• London is a poem by Samuel Johnson, produced in 1738, shortly after he moved to London. It was his first major published work.
• The poem describes the various problems of London, including an emphasis on crime, corruption, and the squalor of the poor.
• To emphasize his message, Johnson personifies these various abstract problems as beings that seek to destroy London. 
• The poem in 263 lines imitates Juvenal's Third Satire, expressed by the character of Thales (in the poem) as he decides to leave London for Wales. 
• Johnson imitated Juvenal because he was following a popular 18th-century trend of Augustan poets, headed by Alexander Pope, that favoured imitations of classical poets. 
• London was published anonymously and in multiple editions during 1738.
• It quickly received critical praise, notably from Pope. Part of that praise came from the political basis of the poem.
• Since this poem was written by Samuel Johnson and not Wordsworth, we can safely say that Option 4 is the correct answer. 

• During March 1737, Samuel Johnson lived in London with his former pupil, the actor David Garrick. Later, in October 1737, Johnson brought his wife to London; they first lived at Woodstock Street and then moved to 6 Castle Street. Soon, Johnson found employment with Edward Cave, and wrote for his periodical The Gentleman's Magazine. 
• During this time, Johnson was exposed to the "imitations" of Horace composed by Pope and saw how they were used to attack contemporary political corruption. Both the form and subject were popular, and Johnson decided to follow Pope's lead by creating his own imitation. 

Mistake Points

• "London, 1802" is a poem by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth.
• In the poem Wordsworth criticizes the English people as stagnant and selfish, and praises seventeenth-century poet John Milton. Composed in 1802, it was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807. 
• "Strange fits of passion have I known" is a seven-stanza ballad by William Wordsworth. Composed during a stay in Germany in 1798, the poem was first published in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800).