This nature lover felt that poetry should reflect the simple tongue of the common man and that poetry is basically “emotion recollected in tranquility.” Which renowned poet penned “Tintern Abbey” and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Charles Lamb
- William Blake
Answer
The correct answer is A) William Wordsworth.
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