William Wordsworth spent his long life in one of the most beautiful regions of England the lake District.
He and his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge revolutionized English peotry in 1798 when they published The Lyrical Ballads.
They were the first Romantics, and paved the way for poets like Keats, Shelley and Lord Byron. They made two enormous changes in the language of poetry, and in the subject matter.
Wordsworth used the language of simple, country people. And he wrote about Nature Coleridge wrote about the supernatural. Compared with the poetry that went before them, it was like the difference between a highly ornamental garden and the natural landspace of the lakes.
But for all its simplicity, Wordsworth's language is still unusual. He often reverses the order of subject and verb for example. When he remembered the excitement of being in France during the French Revolution (he was nineteen years old at the time) he wrote :
'Bliss was it that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven.'
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