Wordsworth

Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

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    “And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait
    For wealth, or honors, or for worldly state;”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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