Summary: Today's poem is by "<strong>William Wordsworth</strong>, (born April 7, 1770, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Cockermouth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cockermouth</a>, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Cumberland-historical-county-England" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cumberland</a>, England—died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland), English poet whose <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lyrical-Ballads" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Lyrical Ballads</em></a> (1798), written with <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Taylor-Coleridge" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, helped launch the English <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/Romanticism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Romantic movement</a>." <em>--bio from Britannica.com. </em><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
