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William Wordsworth, né le 7 avril 1770 à Cockermouth , mort le 23 avril 1850 à Rydal , près d'Ambleside , est un poète anglais. Il inaugure, avec Samuel Taylor Coleridge, la période romantique de la littérature anglaise lors de la publication de Lyrical Ballads . Son œuvre maîtresse est Le Prélude, poème autobiographique consacré aux expériences fondatrices de sa jeunesse. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. avril 1770 – 23. avril 1850   •   Autres noms Уильям Вордсворт, ویلیام وردزورث
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William Wordsworth: Citations en anglais

“In years that bring the philosophic mind.”

Intimations of Immortality Stanza 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.”

On the Power of Sound, xii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“But who, if he be called upon to face
Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined
Great issues, good or bad for human kind,
Is happy as a Lover.”

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 48.

“More skillful in self-knowledge, even more pure,
As tempted more; more able to endure,
As more exposed to suffering and distress.”

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 23.

“And he is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all.”

The Oak and the Broom.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door!”

William Wordsworth livre Lyrical Ballads

Lucy Gray, or Solitude, st. 2 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“Pleasures newly found are sweet
When they lie about our feet.”

To the Same Flower (the Small Celandine), st. 1 (1803).

“Drink, pretty creature, drink!”

William Wordsworth livre Lyrical Ballads

The Pet Lamb. A Pastoral, st. 1 (1800).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“Brothers all
In honour, as in one community,
Scholars and gentlemen.”

William Wordsworth livre The Prelude

Bk. IX, l. 227.
The Prelude (1799-1805)

“Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves
Of their bad influence, and their good receives.”

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 17.

“And mighty poets in their misery dead.”

Stanza 17.
Resolution and Independence (1807)

“The poet's darling.”

To the Daisy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Nature's old felicities.”

The Trosachs.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.”

My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, (1802); the last three lines of this form the introductory lines of the long Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood begun the next day.

“Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,
Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!”

The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.
Personal Talk, Stanza 4
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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