Perhaps the most enduringly popular figure of the Romantic age, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) continues to be considered one of the world' s great poets, with a career spanning more than half a century that saw him rising from the radical young wanderer , experiencing the French Revolution at first hand, to the august Poet Laureate.
It is as if there were nothing but himself and the universe. He lives in the busy solitude of his own heart. -- William Hazlitt