“Fill
your papers with the breathings of your heart.” –
William Wordsworth
Wise words from the man who helped launch
what’s known as “The Romantic Age” in English literature with his share of
the renowned Lyrical Ballads in 1798.
His “Lines Written in Early Spring,”
one of the ballads, has some of the most beautiful descriptive writing about
the season ever penned, and if you want to see a “How it should be done” piece
read that one alone – if you find you don’t have time for the entire Lyrical Ballads masterpiece.
Born in 1770, Wordsworth was already
writing and drawing admirers in his teens and went on to become Poet Laureate
of Great Britain from1843-1850, the year of his death, Wordsworth and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge wrote a string of beautiful in-depth poems over a span of 50
years, including Wordsworth’s The Prelude,
considered one of the greatest epic poems of all time.
Wordsworth had a simple formula for
writing success. “To begin, begin,” he
said. As for how to successfully live
one’s life, he noted, “The best portion of a good man's life is his little,
nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
Wordsworth had a simple formula for
writing success. “To begin, begin,” he
said. As for how to successfully live
one’s life, he noted, “The best portion of a good man's life is his little,
nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
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