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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

William Wordsworth: Citations en anglais

“But he is risen, a later star of dawn.”

A Morning Exercise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Turning, for them who pass, the common dust
Of servile opportunity to gold.”

Desultory Stanza.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company.”

Stanza 3.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)

“Every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope’s perpetual breath.”

These Times strike Monied Worldlings.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope’s perpetual breath.

“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should wish to be?”

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 1.

“How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!”

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“What fond and wayward thoughts will slide
Into a lover's head!
"O mercy!" to myself I cried,
"If Lucy should be dead!"”

William Wordsworth livre Lyrical Ballads

Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known, st. 7 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“These feeble and fastidious times.”

Letter to Alexander Dyce (April 19, 1830).

“Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains; each a mighty Voice.”

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland, l. 1 (1807).

“She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:”

William Wordsworth livre Lyrical Ballads

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, st. 1 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy because
We have been glad of yore.”

The Fountain, st. ?? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!”

William Wordsworth livre Lyrical Ballads

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, st. 3 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“Dear Child of Nature, let them rail!”

To a Young Lady, st. 1 (1805).

“The light that never was, on sea or land,
The consecration, and the poet's dream.”

Elegiac Stanzas. Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, st. 4 (1805).

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