Proper noun
A habitational surname from Old English.
William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850), a major English romantic poet.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgDeprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. Philip Larkin
Wordsworth has gone from us - and ye, Ah, may ye feel his voice as we! He too upon a wintry clime Had fallen - on this iron time Of doubts, disputes, distractions, fears. Matthew Arnold
I needed to be made to feel that there was real, permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth taught me this, not only without turning away from, but with a greatly increased interest in the common feelings and common destiny of human beings. John Stuart Mill
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. Irving Layton
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. Walter Pater
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. Thom Gunn