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Analysis of the Poems of William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth is widely considered one of the most influential
English romantic poets. In the preface of his book, Lyrical Ballads,
published in 1798, Wordsworth declared that poetry should contain language
really used by men. This idea, and many of his others, challenged the old
eighteenth-cuntury idea of formal poetry and, therefore, he changed the
course of modern poetry (Wordsworth, William DISCovering).
Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, England, to John, a prominent
aristocrat, and Anne Wo....
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