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John Locke

High Priest of Nature~I

Though Wordsworth's poetic sensibility was shaped by natural philosophers and thinkers like David Hartley, Jean Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin and John Locke among others, he went on to fashion and articulate his unique philosophy of life in his poetry of nature. Shifting the focus and cradle of poetry to Lake District, he fashioned a new poetic identity in one of the most turbulent periods of European socio-political and cultural history.