Poet · 1770 – 1850
William Wordsworth
Little-Known Facts
- His poem about daffodils, 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', is one of the best-known in English.
- He spent most of his life in England's Lake District, which his poetry made famous.
Myths & Misconceptions
What did Wordsworth mean by poetry as 'emotion recollected in tranquillity'?
He believed poetry arises when a poet revisits, in calm reflection, the powerful feelings of an earlier experience — a key idea of Romantic poetry.