Spotlight: British poet William Wordsworth was born on this date in 1770. A leader of the Romantic movement in England, Wordsworth published a collection of Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among the first to use contemporary language in poetry. In 1843, Wordsworth was appointed England's poet laureate. One of his most famous poems is "Daffodils."
Quote: "To begin, begin." – William Wordsworth