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“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
 
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William Wordsworth
 
Name:   William Wordsworth
 
Nationality:   English
 
Date of Birth:   Apr 7, 1770
 
Date of Death:   Apr 23,  1850
 
Profession:   Poet
 
 
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