“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.”

— 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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