surrounding a human brain, comparing it to the "strange seas of thought". Taylor Swift's 2020 album Folklore mentions Wordsworth in her bonus track "The Lakes", which is thought to be about the Lake District. Commemoration In April 2020, the Royal Mail issued a series of postage stamps to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wordsworth. Ten 1st class stamps were issued, featuring Wordsworth and all the major British Romantic poets, including William Blake, John Keats, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Walter Scott. Each stamp included an extract from one of their most popular and enduring works, with Wordsworth's "The Rainbow" selected for the poet. Major works References Further reading Juliet Barker. Wordsworth: A Life, HarperCollins, New York, 2000, Jeffrey Cox, William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic: Contesting Poetry After Waterloo, 2021, ISBN 978-1108837613 Hunter Davies, William Wordsworth: A Biography, Frances Lincoln, London, 2009, Stephen Gill, William Wordsworth: A Life, Oxford University Press, 1989, Emma Mason, The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth (Cambridge University Press, 2010) Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth, A Biography: The Early Years, 1770–1803 v. 1, Oxford University Press, 1957, Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: A Biography: The Later Years, 1803–1850 v. 2, Oxford University Press, 1965, M. R. Tewari, One Interior Life—A Study of the Nature of Wordsworth's Poetic Experience (New Delhi: S. Chand & Company Ltd, 1983) Report to Wordsworth, Written by Boey Kim Cheng, as a direct reference to his poems "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" and "The World Is Too Much with Us" Daniel Robinson, The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth, Oxford University Press, 2015, External links Internet archive of Volume 1 of Christopher Wordsworth's 1851 biography Internet archive of Volume 2 of Christopher Wordsworth's 1851 biography William Wordsworth Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book andManuscript Library, Yale University. 1770 births 1850 deaths 18th-century Christian mystics 18th-century English poets 18th-century English writers 18th-century English male writers 19th-century Christian mystics 19th-century English poets 19th-century English writers 19th-century male writers Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Anglican poets Anglican writers Burials in Cumbria English Anglicans English male poets 19th-century mystics People associated with Durham University People educated at Hawkshead Grammar School People from Cockermouth People from Grasmere (village) Protestant mystics Romantic poets Sonneteers William