detroitlib: William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850)English Romantic poet who, with S
detroitlib: William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850)English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth was Britain’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death. (Wikipedia)From our stacks: 1.-3. Poem ‘I Wandered lonely as a Cloud’, frontispiece “W. Wordsworth. W. Boxall pinxt. J. B. Longacre Sc.”, and cover detail from The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, now first published with his works. Edited by Henry Reed. Philadelphia: Kay & Troutman. Pittsburgh: C. H. Kay. 1846. 4.-6. Poem ‘My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold’, title page detail “Rydal Mount, Wordsworth’s Home”, and frontispiece from The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Cambridge Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press Cambridge. 1904. -- source link