Words·worth  (wûrdz'wûrth')  British poet whose most important collection, Lyrical Ballads (1798), published jointly with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped establish romanticism in England. He was appointed poet laureate in 1843. Words·worth'i·an adj. |
A nineteenth-century English poet; one of the leading figures of romanticism. His poems include “Daffodils” (which begins with the words “I wandered lonely as a cloud”), “The World Is Too Much with Us,” “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” and “The Prelude.”