Even in his later days Wordsworth's sympathies reach far beyond England.

But none of these were so distinctively English as Tennyson, and none of them were so outside of England as Browning.

Interesting as it is, the _completeness_ of this isolation from England was a misfortune, not a strength, in his poetry.
There is another thing to say in this connection.

The expansion of the interests of the English poets beyond England was due in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and partly in Byron, to the great tidal-wave of feeling for man as man, which, rising long before the French Revolution, was lifted into twice its height and dashed on the shore of the world with overwhelming volume, by the earthquake in France of 1789.

Special national sentiments were drowned in its waters.