The life
A Lake District poet who made ordinary speech and ordinary memory the matter of poetry. He wrote his greatest work in a few years of intense feeling and then spent decades revising it.
He redefined the poem as 'emotion recollected in tranquillity', which is still how most people read.
Annotated here3 texts
LyricRomantic
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth · 1807
Ten thousand daffodils, and the memory that keeps on paying out.
Gentle · 4 minRead→
SonnetRomantic
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
William Wordsworth · 1802
London at dawn, seen as though nobody had ever looked at it before.
Gentle · 3 minRead→
LyricRomantic
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth · 1798
Returning to a place to find that the person who first saw it has gone.
Demanding · 6 minRead→