Who said “Child is the father of Man”?

William Wordsworth said that “Child is the father of Man”. William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet. Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi autobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem “to Coleridge”. Wordsworth was Britain’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.