Radical activist and eventual poet laureate William Wordsworth, once proclaimed:

"Men who do not wear fine clothes can feel deeply."

Read "Michael" and understand what he was going on about: https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/michael-pastoral-poem

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To Wordsworth

Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know
That things depart which never may return:
Childhood and youth, friendship and love’s first glow,
Have fled like sweet dreams, leaving thee to mourn.
These common woes I feel. One loss is mine
Which thou too feel’st, yet I alone deplore.
Thou wert as a lone star whose light did shine
On some frail bark in winter’s midnight roar:
Thou hast like to a rock-built refuge stood
Above the blind and battling multitude:
In honoured poverty thy voice did weave
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty, —
Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve,
Thus having been, that thou should cease to be.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/09/poem-of-the-week-to-wordsworth-by-percy-bysshe-shelley

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Wikipedia
" #Wordsworth wrote to Joseph Cottle in 1799:

From what I can gather it seems that the Ancient Mariner has upon the whole been an injury to the volume, I mean that the old words and the strangeness of it have deterred readers from going on. If the volume should come to a second Edition I would put in its place some little things which would be more likely to suit the common taste."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner#:~:text=Wordsworth%20wrote%20to,the%20common%20taste.
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