“I yield to none in love for my art. I, therefore, labour at it with…” — William Wordsworth

“I yield to none in love for my art. I, therefore, labour at it with reverence, affection, and industry.”

Presenting poetic craft as disciplined labour grounded in devotion to art · Conversation, recorded by Christopher Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

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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