“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good:
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow.”

Personal Talk, sonnet 3 (1806).

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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