Inspiring Poems: …the wren that sang so sweetly

William Wordsworth's great poem The Prelude is a kind of autobiography in poetry. In the early books he recalls childhood memories, and this detail, of listening to a single bird singing in an old church, I find particularly striking and beautiful... ...that single wrenWhich one day sang so sweetly in the naveOf the old church, …

Inspiring Poetry: “unconscious intercourse with beauty”

. William Wordsworth is one of the best writers to explore the connectedness of the human soul and the natural world. I see him as a kind of mystic who celebrates the powerful non-rational ways of knowing through sense experience, intuition and unconscious, instinctive response. These are some beautiful lines from The Prelude, Book 1 …

Inspiring Quotations: “A renovated spirit”

"A renovated spirit singled out,Such hope was mine, for holy services."Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book 1, Lines 53-54