William Wordsworth (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Comparing William Wordsworth with other great English poets was once a parlor game for critics. Matthew Arnold places him below only William Shakespeare and John Milton; others, ranging less widely, are content to call him the greatest of the Romantic poets. Incontestably, Wordsworth stands supreme among English nature poets, and the stamp of his influence so strongly marks the brief period of nineteenth century Romanticism that some have called it the age of Wordsworth.
The second son of a lower-middle-class family, Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth in the Lake...
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