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All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. - William Wordsworth Attribution: William Wordsworth (1770–1850), British poet. Lyrical Ballads, preface, 2nd edition (1801). This sentiment, which is a central tenet in Wordsworth’s criticism, has parallels in Schiller, Ueber Bürgers Gedichte, as well as Coleridge’s Notebooks, in which he speaks of “recalling passion in tranquillity.”

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William Wordsworth

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

• William Wordsworth

Encyclopedia:

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

Salem on Literature:

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

Literary Criticism:

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

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• William Wordsworth dies
• William Wordsworth publishes The Prelude
• 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 and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads
• William Wordsworth is born