"Child is father of the man" is quoted from the poem -

• In the poem "My Heart Leaps Up" also known as "The Rainbow" William Wordsworth writes "Child is the father of the man".

•"My Heart Leaps Up/ The Rainbow":
১৮০২ সালে প্রকাশিত এই কবিতাটি একটি short lyric poem.
- Like many of his poems from this period, "My Heart Leaps Up" was inspired by nature, as the speakers describes the feeling of joy upon seeing a simple rainbow.
- The poem also appreciates the importance of carrying child-like enthusiasm and wonder throughout life, an idea that Wordsworth returns throughout much of his work.

• William Wordsworth, ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের Romantic Period এর অন্যতম কবি।
- William Wordsworth is regarded as one of the central figures in the initiation of English Romanticism.

• His famous quotations:
- 'Child is the father of man',
- 'Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting',
- 'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her',
- 'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings',
- 'Poet is the breath and final speed of knowledge',
-' Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher'.

• William Wordsworth (1770 -1850)
- He is one of the major poets of the Romantic Period.
- William Wordsworth এবং Samuel Taylor Coleridge রচিত Lyrical Ballads এর প্রকাশনার মাধ্যমে Romantic Period এর সূচনা হয় ।
- Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor এর যৌথ প্রকাশনা কিন্তু এই প্রকাশনায় William Wordsworth এর অবদান ছিল সর্বোচ্চ ছিল বলে তাকে The father od Romantic Age বলা হয়।

• Famous poems of Wordsworth:
- The Solitary Reaper,
- Peter Bell,
- The Recluse,
- The world is too Much with Us,
- Tintern Abbey,
- The Rainbow or My Heart Leaps Up,
- To The Cuckoo,
- Laodamia,
- Lucy Poems,
- The Daffodils,
- Ode on immortality,
- The Excursion,
- Michael, etc

• The only play by William Wordsworth is The Borderers.
- The Borderers, a tragedy in five acts, was Wordsworth's first major work.

Source: An ABC of English Literature by Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica and website Lecture.