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PENGUIN CLASSICS WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: SELECTED POEMS PENGUIN SELECTED
ENGLISH POETS GENERAL EDITOR: CHRISTOPHER RICKS William Wordsworth was born
in Cockermouth, on the coast of the Lake District, in 1770, the second of five children. His rural
upbringing inspired much of his poetry, and some of his most intense visionary passages,
notably in The Prelude, stem from childhood and adolescent experience. As a young man …