Perfect ✅

The correct answer is indeed William Wordsworth, and the line is from Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (commonly known as Tintern Abbey).

About the Poem – Tintern Abbey

• Full title: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798.

• Published in Lyrical Ballads (1798), co-authored by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

• A blank verse lyric and one of Wordsworth’s finest poems.

• Focuses on memory, nature, spirituality, and the growth of the poet’s mind.

• The ruined abbey by the River Wye serves as a backdrop for meditation.

Famous Line:
👉 “Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

• Born: April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England.

• Known as the “Poet of Nature”, “Poet of Childhood”, and a member of the Lake Poets.

• Greatly influenced by The French Revolution in his early years.

• With Coleridge, launched English Romanticism through Lyrical Ballads (1798).

• In 1843, became Poet Laureate of England.

Major Works

• Tintern Abbey

• Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge)

• The Prelude (autobiographical epic)

• The Excursion

• The Recluse (unfinished)

• Michael

• Lucy Poems

• The Solitary Reaper

• Ode: Intimations of Immortality

• London, 1802

• The Ruined Cottage

✨ Quick Memory Tip for Exams:

• Wordsworth → Poet of Nature 🌿

• Coleridge → Poet of Imagination ✨

• Byron → Rebel Poet 🔥

• Shelley → Revolutionary Poet ⚡

• Keats → Poet of Beauty / Sensuousness 🌹