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Rosetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring loss and unattainable hope.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Her divine poems have a freshness and toughness of thought, while many of her love poems are erotic, and as often express love for women as for men. 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He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWordsworth spent most of his adult life in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy and his wife Mary, by whom he had four children. 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