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Quotes by William Wordsworth

English poet, 1770–1850

William Wordsworth launched English Romanticism with Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Coleridge, and its preface calling for poetry in the real language of ordinary people. His long autobiographical poem The Prelude, and lyrics such as ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’, made the Lake District a landscape of the mind. He was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death.

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The Child is Father of the Man.

William Wordsworth, My heart leaps up, line 7 (Poems, 1815), 1807 Verified quote Read its story
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I wandered lonely as a Cloud that floats on high o'er Vales and Hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden Daffodils.

William Wordsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloud, first stanza, revised text of Poems (1815); first published in 1807, 1815 Verified quote Read its story
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