Clearly he has his faults. For one thing, he is almost completely without a sense of humor. That, of course, was his intent. And through his simple, readily understandable poems, Wordsworth has done more than any poet I've read to bring me into a closer spiritual connection with the natural world. When I read Wordsworth the world feels more alive, and I come to life along with it.
Simple poems can carry at least as much feeling as more complex, difficult poems.
Emotion does not need to be expressed in a sophisticated fashion to be genuine or capable of moving the listener. And sometimes there is more eloquence in simplicity, just as silence often speaks louder than words. At the time I set Wordsworth's sonnet to music, I was involved with a gifted poet who had attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where Jorie Graham reigns as queen of poetry, a poet whose work gives me a headache every time I try to make sense of it. My friend the poet did not at all like Wordsworth, whom she considered facile and sentimental. One evening I sang them for my poet friend, who, as I recall, was quite underwhelmed.