William Wordsworth

1770 - 1850 Born: Cockermouth, Cumberland, England WORDSWORTH is best known for his book of poetry, LYRICAL BALLADS, published in 1798 and written in collaboration with SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, because of the theory of poetry that lay behind the work. He is probably the greatest poet of the Romantic period and one of the best English language poets ever.

"The gods approve / The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul." from LAODAMIA

"The wiser mind / Mourns less for what age takes away / Than what it leaves behind." from THE FOUNTAIN

"And much it grieved my heart to think / What man has made of man." from LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING

POSTSCRIPT "To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, from ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY

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