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William Wordsworth, born on 7th April 1770 . Wordsworth was concerned about the elitism of earlier poets, their highbrow language and subject matter which was not accessible to ordinary people. He maintained that poetry should be democratic; that it should be composed in ‘the language really spoken by men’ and he launched his ideas when he, with Coleridge, published their Lyrical Ballads (1798).
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Each of the ten stamps features the work of the key Romantic poets – John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, and two female poets – Mary Robinson and Letiticia Landon, who in their time were extremely popular, and among the first women to support themselves solely by writing.
Issue Date:07.04.2020 Designer:The Chase Printer:International Security Printers Process:Lithography, PVA Gum, 1st class phosphor bars Size:41mm (w) x 30mm (h), Landscape
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