William Wordsworth was one of the strongest romantic poets in the English Language of his time. ... John's College, Cambridge and then to the University of Cambridge. ... An example of his focus in humanity was in London in 1802 when he made a plea to the poet John Milton to return and teach humanity how to regain the morality and virtue it once had. ... Along with the setting he wanted you to feel this breeze rub against your skin which creates a sense of peace and tranquility that this sight brought to your inner soul .Several contributing factors that inspired William Wordsworth to wri...

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By that time English literature had "stumbled", as it were, just marking time and making no headway, so to speak. Poetry of the period seemed to have exhausted its civic and moral spirit, peculiar to the works of the great masters of the past like Shakespeare, Milton and Byron. ... These people were to reform the literature of their time and to shape modern language, literary styles, poetic diction and verse. ... There he studied basic disciplines first at Smith Academy, then at Milton College in Massachusetts. ... Eliot's study of the poetry of Dante, of the English writers John Webster...

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