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William wordsworth books list of books by author william. Discover librarianselected research resources on william wordsworth from the questia online library, including fulltext online books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more. William wordsworth 7 april 1770 23 april 1850 was an english romantic poet who, with samuel taylor coleridge, helped to launch the romantic age in english literature with their joint publication lyrical ballads 1798. One of the great english poets, he was a leader of the romantic movement in. Wordsworths poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and events. William wordsworth, who rallied for common speech within poems and argued against the poetic biases of the period, wrote some of the most influential poetry in western literature, including his most famous work, the prelude, which is often considered to be the crowning achievement of english romanticism. He believed that a strong imaginative life is essential for our wellbeing. In 1798 he published the lyrical ballads with coleridge, settling shortly after in dove cottage, grasmere with his sister, dorothy. He is remembered as a poet of spiritual and epistemological speculation, a poet concerned with the human relationship to nature and a fierce advocate of using.
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