Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. Votes: 1
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. Votes: 1
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. Votes: 1
Poetry is fact given over to imagery. Votes: 5 Rod McKuen
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. Votes: 6 Philip Larkin