My heart leas up when i behold

William wordsworth, English poet and worshipper of nature and simplicity, was born in the lake district. He spent some time in France, where he became an enthusiastic republican until disillusioned by the Terror which followed the French  Recolution, In somerset, with Coleridge, he composed the lyrical Ballads. which attacked concentional poetry of the 18th century and which started the romantic movement in English. Then he settled with his sister Dorothy in Grasmere in 1799. In 1802 he married Mary Hutchinson and tehy started living a life of ''plain living and high thinking.'' and the composed the poems that made him (after initial hostility) recered as the greatest poet of his time.these poems include ''Immortality ode'' many fine sonners, and pastroral poems such as '' Michael'' .Radical in his youth, he became conservative with age. in 1843, he was made oet laureate. His autobiographical poem, the prelude, was posthumously published in 1850.
Wordsworth says:'' poetry is the spontaneous overfolw of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotions recollected in tranquility. '' in this poem'' My heart leaps up...'' he recollects n experience of his childhood days and gives his emotion and feelings a meaning.