Certainly both poets provide more than sufficient evidence of handling words and producing emotional responses in readers, and evidence of the nature of life and responses to it, although the Lucy poems would not, for me, be preferred choices with regard to Wordsworth.
Seeing nature through religious responses and Miltonic cadences and as a Milton sonnet;
Wordsworth-THE WORLD'S TOO MUCH WITH US: LATE AND SOON
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune, It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake
There is also the French writer/playwright Aimé Césaire, who penned A notebook of my return to the native land, as well as Ferrements. The Martiniquan poet Edouard Glissant also wrote beautiful pieces of philosophical poetry in Les Indes and Caribbean Discourse.
One reason for my question was to find out about important writers I have little knowledge of, and although I know and have read Cesaire I did not until now know of Glissant.
Now living in Portugal, I am suddenly aware of very impressive writers I knew nothing about previously.