William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a prominent member of the Lake Poets, the first generation of poets in the Romantic Movement. The Lake poets were a literary circle centered in the Lake District in the northern area of England, inspired by the many lakes, breathtaking mountains, and fields full of flowers. From 1797 to 1800, Wordsworth worked closely with Samuel Taylor Coleridge (another Lake Poet) on the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, largely considered the mark of the beginning of English Romanticism. Romanticists emphasized the importance of nature, specifically as a way to express the profundity of emotions. This edition included several poems exploring human relationship to nature, including a poem called “The Tables Turned”. Wordsworth