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A creature not too bright or good
For human nature’s daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. - William Wordsworth Attribution: William Wordsworth (1770–1850), British poet. She Was a Phantom of Delight (l. 17–20). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.

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William Wordsworth

Titles by William Wordsworth:

• Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
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Salem on History:

• William Wordsworth

Encyclopedia:

• Wordsworth, William (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Wordsworth, William (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• William Wordsworth (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• William Wordsworth (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• William Wordsworth (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• William Wordsworth (Magill Book Reviews)
• William Wordsworth (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Literary Criticism:

• Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• William Wordsworth is born
• William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads
• Francis Jeffrey publishes his famous review of William Wordsworth's The Excursion which begins with the short, dry statement, “This will never do.”
• William Wordsworth publishes The Prelude
• William Wordsworth dies