Perspectives

To broaden your understanding of “The World Is Too Much with Us” by William Wordsworth and help you engage in a meaningful dialogue about the poem, we will put it into perspective discussing the context it was written in.

Other texts by the same author

William Wordsworth was part of the first generation of English Romantic poets together with S. T. Coleridge. Both of them were known as the Lake Poets, due to the fact that their poetry was inspired by a region in England called Lake District. Writing in a rural environment has clearly influenced Wordsworth’s poetry, many of his poems being about mankind and the natural world. Other interesting texts by the author on this topic are ““I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “The Tables Turned” and “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”. In those poems, the poet views nature ...