William Wordsworth

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Poet
gptkbp:artist Use of blank verse
Imagery of nature
Focus on personal experience
Use of simple language
gptkbp:artMovement Romanticism
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Lake_Poets
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Gold_Medal_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts
gptkbp:birthDate 1770-04-07
gptkbp:bornIn gptkb:Cockermouth
gptkbp:children gptkb:Dorothy_Wordsworth
gptkb:John_Wordsworth
gptkbp:deathDate 1850-04-23
gptkbp:diedIn gptkb:Rydal_Mount
gptkbp:education gptkb:St_John's_College,_Cambridge
gptkbp:famousQuote “I am a poet, and I am a man.”
“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”
“To me, the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
“Nature_never_did_betray_the_heart_that_loved_her.”
gptkbp:genre Lyric poetry
Romantic poetry
Nature poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label William Wordsworth
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:John_Keats
gptkb:William_Blake
gptkb:Robert_Frost
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
gptkbp:inspiration Nature
Childhood
Memory
gptkbp:knownFor Lyrical Ballads
gptkbp:legacy Influence on modern poetry
Establishment of Romanticism
Promotion of nature in literature
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
gptkb:Robert_Southey
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:The_Prelude
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
gptkbp:occupation Poet Laureate
gptkbp:philosophy Emphasis on emotion
Connection with nature
Value of the common man
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Rydal_Mount
Dove Cottage
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Mary_Hutchinson