William Wordsworth

Known for

Lyrical Ballads, nature poetry, "emotion recollected in tranquillity"

Biography

English Poet Laureate and, with Coleridge, co-founder of English Romanticism, who drew his poetry from the Lake District's landscapes and ordinary rural life.

A well-known line

"The world is too much with us."

Major works

• Lyrical Ballads
• The Prelude
• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud