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Content: He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon for Scots around the world. His style is marked by spontaneity, directness, and sincerity, and ranges from the tender intensity of some of his lyrics through humour. The strong emotional highs and lows associated with many of his poems have led some to suggest that he suffered from manic depression. William Lisle Bowles
Published "Fourteen Sonnets" to high praise. His longer poems published are not of a very high standard, though all are distinguished by purity of imagination, cultured and graceful diction, and great tenderness of feeling. William Wordsworth
English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication "Lyrical Ballads." His magnum opus is generally considered to be "The Prelude," a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge." He was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.