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“William Wordsworth was considered one of the greatest and most influential English romantic poets of his time”(Young 369). He was known for his innovative concepts of nature, his use of “language really used by men,” and his use of simple topics surrounded by mass detail. “What made Wordsworth’s poetry so favorable and memorable was his challenge of formal poetic diction, profoundly affecting the course of modern poetry”(369). Wordsworth’s experimentation with colloquialism and nature imagery was met with mixed reviews. “Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England”(Exploring Poetry). “Both of his parents died when he was young”(Exploring Poetry). “He was sent to a boarding school, along with his brother, in Hawkeshead”(Exploring Poetry). “In the rural surroundings of Hawkeshead, situated in the beautiful Lake District, Wordsworth developed a keen appreciation of nature that would inform much of his later writing”(Exploring Poetry). “In his later years after graduating from St. John’s College in Cambridge, Wordsworth had no definite career plans, so he traveled around quite a bit”(Exploring Poetry). “He moved to France and became involved in the French Revolution”(E