William Wordsworth, author of "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge", was born in 1770 and died in 1850. He is most famous for his Lyrical Ballads and their Preface (1788), the Prelude (1805), and the Excursion (1814). Historically he lived through a period of rebellion, that of the French revolution of 1789, when as a poet he witnessed the Romantic Movement dominate most art forms. Romanticism is best described as anti-Classicism and a reaction against it. It is a deeply felt style, which is individualistic, beautiful, exotic, and emotionally wrought.

William Blake writer of "London" is known for his paintings (Illustrations of the Book of Job of 1825 and Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy of 1824) as well as his poems (Poetical Sketches of 1783, Songs Of Innocence and of Experience of 1794, and The Prophetic Books. Blake lived in the...