William Wordsworth Quotes


The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.


Citations

Wordsworth, William. Ecclesiastical Sketches. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822, p. 79.

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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
  • Born: April 7, 1770
  • Died: April 23, 1850
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).