2. What is poetry ?
• Literary work in which special intensity is
given to the expression of feelings and ideas
by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.
• Poetry has a long history, dating back to
the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh
3. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
• William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April
1850) was a major English Romantic poet
who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to
launch the Romantic Age in English literature
with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.