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After he returned from France in 1792, Wordsworth was sickened by the war between France & England, and he gradually became deeply disillusioned about his hopes for change.

Browning’s happy marriage confirmed his belief that only by acting boldly can one wrest what is good from an imperfect world.

In his dramatic poems, Browning also liked to emphasize the error, weakness, and even the viciousness of his characters.

She lived unknown, but because Wordsworth immortalized her in his poems, Lucy became famous throughout 18th-century England as a symbol of the universal experience of love & loss.

By the Victorian era, Wordsworth was the poet laureate 1843, a cartoon image of an old gentleman delighting in daffodils and butterflies while wandering about the Lake District.

Browning intended to write in many forms & under different names. He eventually achieved this goal, but he held on to his ambition of dazzling the world with his range & variety.

Barrett was a semi-invalid in her father’s London house, where she submitted to his sternly protective care.

Like Poe, Browning had a taste for morbid psychology.He once accused his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, of lacking a scientific interest in death.