William Wordsworth vs. Robert Louis Stevenson

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

1908 – 1988

Literature
United Kingdom

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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"These feeble and fastidious times."

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 – 1894

Literature
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).

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"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."

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Robert Louis Stevenson was influenced by William Wordsworth