Assessment Wordsworth's personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country in which he spent most of his mature life. A profoundly earnest and sincere thinker, he displayed a high seriousness comparable. at times. to Milton's but tempered with tenderness and a love of simplicity.Assessment ◼ Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent most of his mature life. A profoundly earnest and sincere thinker, he displayed a high seriousness comparable, at times, to Milton’s but tempered with tenderness and a love of simplicity