William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet (1770–1850) whose work celebrated nature, memory, and common speech.
With Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he published *Lyrical Ballads* (1798), a landmark collection that helped launch English Romanticism.
His best-known poems include "Tintern Abbey," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," and *The Prelude*.
He served as Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death.
Yellow spring bulb flowers
- Lake DistrictNorthwest England's national park
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- valesHollows between hills
- meadowsGrassland for grazing
woodlands · streams · wildflowers · landscape · solitude · tranquility · birdsong · breezes
Awe-inspiring greatness
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- emotionComplex psychological state
- beautyAesthetic excellence
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
spontaneity · individualism · melancholy · nostalgia · lyricism · sensibility · introspection · aesthetic
Introductory piece or event
- excursionBrief recreational trip
- sonnetsFourteen-line rhymed poems
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
- odeLaudatory verse form
ballad · stanza · meter · rhyme · couplet · enjambment · diction · lyricism
English Romantic verse-maker
- DorothyClassic feminine given name
- Victorian poetryNineteenth-century British verse
- nature writingGenre depicting landscapes and ecology
- literary criticismAnalyzing and evaluating fiction
canon · legacy · romanticism · autobiography
daffodils
Yellow spring bulb flowers
- Lake DistrictNorthwest England's national park
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- valesHollows between hills
meadows · woodlands · streams · wildflowers · landscape · solitude · tranquility · birdsong · breezes · wandering
sublime
Awe-inspiring greatness
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- emotionComplex psychological state
- beautyAesthetic excellence
transcendence · spontaneity · individualism · melancholy · nostalgia · lyricism · sensibility · introspection · aesthetic · Coleridge
prelude
Introductory piece or event
- excursionBrief recreational trip
- sonnetsFourteen-line rhymed poems
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
ode · ballad · stanza · meter · rhyme · couplet · enjambment · diction · lyricism · recollection
Coleridge
English Romantic verse-maker
- DorothyClassic feminine given name
- Victorian poetryNineteenth-century British verse
- nature writingGenre depicting landscapes and ecology
literary criticism · canon · legacy · romanticism · autobiography
- Lake District WritersBeatrix Potter
- Poets LaureateAlfred Tennyson, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Ted Hughes, Robert Frost
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- British WritersShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Tolkien, Rowling
- 18th Century FiguresNapoleon, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, George Washington
- Cambridge AlumniIsaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, Bertrand Russell
William WordsworthAlexander Pope
Georgian era versifier
T.S. Eliot · Ezra Pound · Jonathan Swift · Oscar Wilde · Charles Baudelaire
William WordsworthWilliam Blake
Charles Dickens · Carl Sandburg · T.S. Eliot · Allen Ginsberg
William, willed, willing, willingly, unwilling, willful, words, worded, wording