EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY

“WHY, William, on that old grey stone,
Thus for the length of half a day,
Why, William, sit you thus alone,
And dream your time away?
“Where are your books?–that light  bequeathed
To Beings else forlorn and blind!
Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed
From dead men to their kind.
“You look round on your Mother Earth,
As if she for [...]

William Wordsworth was one of the leading figures of the Romanticism movement and friends with another influential English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Xanadu. The two then went on to collaborate and came up with one of the best known works of the period, Lyrical Ballads, which [...]