william wordsworth

This poet joined forces with Samuel Taylor Coleridge to publish "Lyrical Ballads"

Trivia about william wordsworth

"The Haunted Tree" is a haunting poem by this Lake poet
This nineteenth-century poet laureate was the most famous poet born in the Lake District of England
This lake poet wasn't widely appreciated by critics until he published "The River Duddon" in 1820
"Resolution and Independence" is found in this lake poet's 1807 "Poems in Two Volumes"
Fans of this Lake poet flock to Dove Cottage, his home near Grasmere in the Lake District
He wrote that "Nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower"
He was a romantic poet, a lake poet, a poet laureate & the poet who penned the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets"
"Lyrical Ballads", a poetry collection by Coleridge & this man, includes his famous "Tintern Abbey"
"The Prelude" romantic poet
This Lake poet's autobiographical poem "The Prelude, or, Growth of A Poet's Mind" was published in 1850, after his death
About one of his most famous poems, he said, "I began it upon leaving Tintern, after crossing the Wye"
This aging romantic lived to write an ode on the installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of Cambridge
In 1807 he published the poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
He wrote, "My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky" in the early 1800s at Grasmere
One of his lines from "Tintern Abbey" mentions "hearing offentimes the still, sad music of humanity"
This romantic poet wrote "Strange fits of passion have I known"