William Wordsworth was a renowned English Romantic Movement poet who lived from 1770 to 1850. Known for his deep appreciation of nature, his poems often celebrated the beauty of the natural world and explored themes of memory, imagination, and childhood. Wordsworth's most famous works include "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" and "The Prelude," an autobiographical epic. Along with fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he published the groundbreaking collection "Lyrical Ballads," which marked a turning point in English literature. Wordsworth's writings continue to be widely studied and cherished for their lyrical beauty and profound insights into the human experience.
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. Go to Quote / Comment
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished Go to Quote / Comment
She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh, The difference to me! Go to Quote / Comment
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Go to Quote / Comment
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. Go to Quote / Comment