|
William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770, in Cockermouth in the Lake District, England. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style, Wordsworth focused on nature, children, the poor, common people and used ordinary words to express his feelings. He defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" arising from "emotion recollected in tranquillity". He died at Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850.
| 
