William Wordsworth

Credited with launching the Romantic Age in English poetry along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, the second of five children. After

Eclipse of the Sun, 1820, The

by William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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High on her speculative tower

Stood Science waiting for the hour

When Sol was destined to endure

That darkening of his radiant face

Which Superstition strove to chase,

Erewhile, with rites impure.

 Afloat beneath Italian skies, 
 Through regions fair as Paradise 
 We gaily passed,—till Nature wrought 

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

The French poet Charles Cros is famous for almost inventing what device, only to be "beaten to the patent office" by Thomas Edison?

Answer

The phonograph. Cros submitted proposals to the French Academy of Sciences, but before he could create a working model, Edison had already perfected his version of the device.

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