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Watch a short reenactment of Wordsworth writing one of his most famous poems-including some background on his collaboration with his sister Dorothy, from whose journals he took a lot of his images. Wordsworth was born in the Lake District of northern England, the second of five children of a modestly prosperous estate manager. The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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Check out the famous collection in which this poem first appeared. The full title of this early masterpiece is Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, Jis usually shortened to the first. William Wordsworth, (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, Englanddied April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland), English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement.

Read a short biography of Wordsworth, and find links to more of his poems. Watch a recent short film interpretation of the poem (and hear it read in a thick Scottish accent). He's still one of the world's best-known and best-loved poets in the world! Read about a recent celebration of Wordsworth's 250th birthday.

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