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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
- Tintern Abbey’ (with some notes on Lyrical Ballads) Five years have passed; five summers, with the length. Of five long winters! and again I hear. These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs.
- The Prelude. Visit here to read ‘The Prelude’ in its entirety. Around 1798–9, Coleridge began bothering Wordsworth about writing a long philosophical poem.
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality. The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be. Bound each to each by natural piety. I. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
- The World is too much with us’ The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours;
William Wadsworth (26 February 1594 [poss.] Long Buckby, England – 15 October 1675 Hartford, Connecticut) was an early pioneer of New England, a founder of Hartford, Connecticut and the patriarch of numerous and prominent Wadsworth descendants of North America, including the poet Ezra Pound.
Jun 20, 2024 · William Wordsworth (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England—died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland) was an English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement.
- Stephen Maxfield Parrish
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850) produced some of the greatest English poems of the late 1700s and early 1800s. In contrast to the decorum of much 18...
- William Wordsworth grew up in the Lake District of northern England. There he spent much of his boyhood playing outdoors and exploring the mountain...
- Stirred simultaneously by walks in the English countryside and by his relationships with his sister Dorothy and English poet-critic Samuel Taylor C...
Mar 6, 2017 · Learn about the life and works of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, who co-authored Lyrical Ballads and became the UK Poet Laureate. Discover his famous poems on nature, London, daffodils, and more.
A famous poem by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, describing his encounter with a crowd of golden daffodils. The poem expresses his joy, wonder and reflection on the beauty of nature and the power of memory.
William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects. He is remembered as a poet of spiritual and epistemological speculation, a poet concerned with the human relationship to nature and a fierce advocate of using the vocabulary…
