“There is scarcely one of my poems which does not aim to direct the…” — William Wordsworth

“There is scarcely one of my poems which does not aim to direct the attention to some moral sentiment, or to some general principle, or law of thought.”

Explaining the reflective and moral purpose underlying his poems · Letter to Lady Beaumont, 21 May 1807

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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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