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[Anonymous No.21880672]

Why was Wordsworth so ugly? Shelley, Keats, Byron, Blake, Milton, every great English poet was a beauty, except Wordsworth. His poems don't match his physiognomy. What was God thinking when he designed this face?

[Anonymous No.21880694]

>>21880672
His poems abound with what his face lacks.

[Anonymous No.21880774]

>>21880672
Was he really ugly, where did you read that he was? Some portraits of him when he was younger don’t look bad at all. I don’t think from his portraits I’d immediately single out Wordsworth as an ugly poet… or whether based on portraits alone I’d think Milton or Blake were beautiful.

[Anonymous No.21880819]

>>21880672
>His poems don't match his physiognomy.
Au contraire
>>21880694
Lmao please

And Wordsworth, in a rather long "Excursion"
(I think the quarto holds five hundred pages),
Has given a sample from the vasty version
Of his new system to perplex the sages;
'Tis poetry—at least by his assertion,
And may appear so when the dog-star rages—
And he who understands it would be able
To add a story to the Tower of Babel.

[Anonymous No.21880875]

>>21880672
Stop using the word physiognomy when you don't know what it means. Specific traits are associated with arts/genius. Fucking bapist/af retards throw around physiognomy like it just means "ur an uggo xD"

[Anonymous No.21880915]

>>21880875
this guy has an uggo physiognomy

[Anonymous No.21880980]

Matthew Lewis was a better poet than all of them despite being ugly

[Anonymous No.21881121]

>>21880672
>Blake