For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfittin… - William Wordsworth

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For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves.

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About William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads.

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Also Known As: Bard of Rydal Mount
Alternative Names: Wordsworth
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley Lord Byron Alfred Tennyson

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A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
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