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Wordsworth

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Words·worth  (wûrdzwûrth), William 1770-1850.
British poet whose most important collection, Lyrical Ballads (1798), published jointly with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped establish romanticism in England. He was appointed poet laureate in 1843.
Words·worthi·an adj.
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Noun1.WordsworthWordsworth - a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)
William Wordsworth
lake poets - English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it


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And when Wordsworth remembers his own rules and keeps to them there is no glamour, and his simplicity is apt to seem to us mere silliness.
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Wordsworth made a constant companion of a pet daisy.
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