Tao Te Ching
William Wordsworth
1770 – 1850 CE
Orphaned at an early age, connected with the common man while wandering through Europe on foot, caught up in both the ups and downs of the French Revolution, and Britain's only Poet Laureate who wrote no official verse; Wordsworth defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” and along with Samuel Coleridge, used poems based in common language to help launch the Romantic Age of literature. A student of John "Walking" Stewart who blended yoga and Eastern wisdom from India with western pantheism, he published some of the most influential poetry in Western literature.
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Artists British Humanism Poets Romanticist
Eras
Western
The Age of Reason: The Enlightenment (1620 – 1800 CE)Romantacism (1800 – 1850 CE)
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)
Victorian (1837 – 1901 CE)
Chinese
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Unlisted Sources
The Prelude, 1805
The World Is Much Too Much with Us
Quotes by William Wordsworth (14 quotes)
“Habit rules the unreflecting herd.”
Chapters:
20. Unconventional Mind
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“And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.”
Chapters:
13. Honor and Disgrace
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“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
Chapters:
55. Forever Young
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“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”
Chapters:
2. The Wordless Teachings
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“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”
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“How exquisitely the individual Mind… to the external World is fitted and how… the external World is fitted to the Mind.”
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“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.”
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“Shelley is one of the best artists of us all: I mean in workmanship of style.”
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“One great society alone on earth:
The noble living and the noble dead.”
from The Prelude, 1805
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“There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott.”
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“Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows like harmony in music; there is a dark inscrutable workmanship that reconciles discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.”
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“Getting and spending, we lay wast our powers
Little we see in Nature that is ours
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!”
from The World Is Much Too Much with Us
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“Virgil's style is an inimitable mixture of the elaborately ornate, and the majestically plain and touching.”
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“That best portion of a man's life—
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
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Quotes about William Wordsworth (1 quotes)
“Has there ever been a great poet as tempting to laugh at as William Wordsworth? The tradition of mocking him is as old as the tradition of revering him... His downfall was that, convinced as he was of the truths that blossomed from his experience, he finally could not imagine that other people might need convincing... But the intrepidity with which Wordsworth explored his own inner life and the generosity with which he shared it remain more than convincing: even now, they continue to define the highest aspirations of modern poetry.”
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