In one work by this man, the narrator says "We poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness."
In one work by this man, the narrator says "We poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness." In another work by this man, he wonders: "Whither is fled the visionary gleam? /  Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Neither Resolution and Independence nor the Ode: Intimations of Immortality  were included in this man's 1798 collection, Lyrical Ballads, which he published with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge. FTP, name this English Romantic, who wrote about daffodils in "I wandered lonely as a cloud", the author of Tintern Abbey.
In one work by this man, the narrator says "We poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness."
William Wordsworth