... has since come to be known as his masterpiece English poet, literary critic, and philosopher, William Wordsworth helped launch the Romantic age in English literature towards the end of the 18th century in Europe with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Both Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth conceived a new style of ... Burns, a Scottish poet, Walter Scott, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edwund Spenser, George Herbert and David Hartley. One primary theme that William Wordsworth focused on in his poetry is nature as it could be represented in the poem "The World is too much with us"....

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