William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet who with Coleridge launched the Romantic age with Lyrical Ballads (1798). His autobiographical epic The Prelude traces the growth of the poetic mind in relation to nature.
Works
- The PreludeAutobiographical poem of the poet's psychological and spiritual development from childhood
- Lyrical BalladsPoetry collection celebrating everyday rural life and emotional experience
- Poems in Two VolumesCollection emphasizing meditation on nature and human consciousness
- The ExcursionPhilosophical narrative poem exploring the wanderer's encounter with humanity
- Tintern AbbeyMeditation on memory, nature, and the passage of time