Who wrote "the world is too much with us"?

Answer by  patti (29325)

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) wrote the sonnet by this title. Wordsworth started, with Coleridge, the era of the English Romantic poets. The sonnet is about the world turning away from nature.

Answer by  patti (29325)

William Wordsworth wrote the sonnet that bears this title. The poem contrasts the world of materialism with nature. He took ordinary things and elevated them to "illuminations of experience."

Answer by  kicsi (9)

"The world is too much with us" is a sonnet by the English poet William Wordsworth. The poem was written in the 19th century (around 1802) and first published five years later (in 1807) in "Poems, In Two Volumes". It describes the conflict between nature and humanity (the materialistic world).

Answer by  Mable (3008)

This is a sonnet by the English poet William Wordsworth first published about 1807. Wordsworth saw poetry as an out-pouring or expression of passion or emotion. In this piece he is criticizing the modern devotion to materialism while regretting a lack of connection with nature. Wordsworth was from the Lake District of England.

Answer by  cangel818 (981)

"the World is too Much wis Us" is from a a lyric poem that William Wordsworth wrote in the 1800s in the form of a sonnet. Most critics feel it ia a poem written about the materialism the Industrial Revolution engendered.