William Wordsworth and MBTI

Something very exciting happened last night. Bear in mind that in the rather workaday world of your careers adviser ,excitement can come in the shape of an advertising jingle or brick patio: the bar may not be so high here, is what I am saying. I have been speculating on the MBTI types of writers and my researches lead me to conclude that William Wordsworth had to be ISFP: all that emotion recollected in tranquillity, indeed all that ’sensing’ recollected and resonating in his work and his imagination. So my conclusion – dominant  intraverted feeling with auxilliary extraverted sensing and inferior extraverted thinking  (his thinking on many public issues was famously ropey).

With this in mind I consult my “introduction to type” on ISFP and what do I find?

“They often have an affinity for nature and for beauty in all living things – people plants and animals.”

What I wondered is the one thing that people know about Wordsworth? There is much more in the summary that seems absolutely right. All those early poems about the lives of poor people whom he met on his travels – revolutionary in their way and the way after initial enthusiasm he recoiled from revolutionary France after seeing what it became in reality; as the manual says -liable to reject or not take seriously logical systems – unlike Coleridge for whom logical systems were endlessly fascinating. Coleridge’s type – I am fairly certain he was ENTP. Keats ? Definitely N, definitely F, probably P. I think Intuition was his dominant, which suggests E. More work required though.