Who is William Wordsworth from Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and what is their importance?

William Wordsworth was a founder and leading exponent of the romantic school of poetry in England whom Emerson admired and met on his first visit to that island country. Wordsworth was quite gracious in welcoming his American counterpart and introduced him to other writers including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author of "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan." Emerson showed his esteem for Wordsworth and the romantics by emulating their style in a number of his poems in this collection.