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William Wordsworth was a Romantic poet, which (oddly enough) doesn't mean he wrote love poems.

Instead, he belonged to a school of poetry that celebrated the glory of nature, the importance of grandeur, and the delight in the mystic supernatural of everyday mundane life.

He brought us such memorable lines as:

Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen . . .

Ye vales and hills whose beauty hither drew . . .

and of course, the popular favorite:

There is a little unpretending Rill . . .

To check out some of his more florid poems, visit The Complete Poems of William Wordsworth.

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