William Wordsworth and the Romantic Age of English Literature
On April 7, 1770, major English Romantic poet William Wordsworth was born. Together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.[6] The eye — it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where’er they be, against or with our will. William Wordsworth, Expostulation and Reply, st. 5 (1798). William Wordsworth was born at…
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