“The earliest poets of all nations generally wrote from passion excited…” — William Wordsworth

“The earliest poets of all nations generally wrote from passion excited by real events; they wrote naturally, and as men.”

Valuing natural expression rooted in genuine experience · Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1802

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About William Wordsworth

7 April 1770–23 April 1850

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the northwestern corner of England, and died on 23 April 1850 at Rydal Mount in the Lake District. Few poets have altered English literary culture so thoroughly. With Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth helped establish the principles of…

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