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Wordsworth William威廉 华兹华斯 British poet, who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. William Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style, Wordsworth focused on the nature, children, the poor, common people, and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings. His definition of poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from emotion recollected in tranquillity was shared by a number of his followers.