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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    Our Luke shall leave us, Isabel; the land
    Shall not go from us, and it shall be free;
    He shall possess it, free as is the wind
    That passes over it.
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    The glory and the freshness of a dream.
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    The light that never was, on sea or land,
    The consecration, and the Poet’s dream;
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)