Wordsworth, William

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1. A nineteenth-century English poet; one of the leading figures of romanticism. His poems include “Daffodils” (which begins with the words “I wandered lonely as a cloud”), “The World Is Too Much with Us,” “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” and “The Prelude.”

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Wordsworth, William, 76, 131, 251, 319.

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Wordsworth, William, 337, 338, 341, 343, 357.

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Wordsworth, William, 298; and Coleridge, 313; the author's personal reminiscence of, 327-330; his poetry, 330-337; his parentage and early years, 337-340; his marriage, 340; his love of Nature, 340, 341; personal traits, 341-343; his home at Rydal Mount, 343, 344; his pension, 344; made Poet Laureate, 344; opposed to railways and manufactures, 345, 346; his burial-place, 347.

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Wordsworth, William, 41; 51-72; 98; 158; 239-43.

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Wordsworth, William, the poet, i.

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