William Wordsworth is an English poet commonly associated with the Romantic movement and described as "the pre-eminent poet of nature" (Watson, par 1). Yet, Wordsworth's fondness for the "regenerative power of nature" is used in order to center the human emotions of loss, grief, and sorrow (Watson, para 1). Some of Wordsworth's most notable works are Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, An Evening Walk, and Descriptive Sketches  (Watson, para 1-3). Concerning Virginia Woolf's Orlando, William Wordsworth is one of the poets that the protagonist references as being a writer they admire and use for inspiration: "...the snaky flower--a thought strong from a lady's pen, perhaps, but Wordsworth, no doubt, sanctions it..." (Woolf, 265).

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Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: a Biography. Harcourt, Inc, 2020.