"Child is the Father of Man" Who said this?

- Child is father of the man" is an idiom originating from the poem "My Heart Leaps Up" by William Wordsworth.
- There are many different interpretations of the phrase.
- The most popular of which is that, "man is the product of habits and behavior developed in youth".

William Wordsworth:
- Born: April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England
- Death: April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland),
-He is an English poet whose ‘Lyrical Ballads’ (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement.

Famous poems of Wordsworth:
- The Solitary Reaper,
- Tintern Abbey,
- Rainbow,
- Lucy Poems,
- The Daffodils,
- Ode on immortality,
- The Excursion,
- Michael etc.

- The only play of William Wordsworth is The Borderers.
- The Borderers, a tragedy in five acts, was Wordsworth's first major work.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]