“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”

— William Wordsworth, book Lyrical Ballads

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Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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