Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, / To perish never.
The Complete Poetical Works
Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworths personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent most of his mature life. A profoundly earnest and sincere thinker, he displayed a high seriousness tempered with tenderness and a love of simplicity.