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William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
"Wordsworth" redirects here. For other uses, see Wordsworth (disambiguation).
For the English composer, see William Wordsworth (composer). For the British academic and reporter in India, see William Christopher Wordsworth.
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "The Poem to Coleridge".
Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. He remains one of the most recognizable names in English poetry and w
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William Wordsworth: biography
William Wordsworth was born on the 7th of April 1770 in Cumberland (England), to parents John and Ann. William Wordsworth attended Hawkshead Grammar School, and it was around this time that Wordsworth began to write his first poems. Following this, Wordsworth attended and graduated from St John's College, a constituent for Cambridge University. In 1790, whilst the French Revolution was ongoing, William Wordsworth visited France.
Wordsworth considered himself to be a democrat, and he sympathised with and supported the ideals of the French revolutionaries. Wordsworth had a daughter with a woman named Annette Vallon in France, but Wordsworth left shortly before she was born.
The French Revolution started in 1787, and lasted until 1799. During this time, revolutionaries in French society denounced the monarchy, and rose against the oppressive institutions of the state and the church. The revolution sought to mobilise working class individuals in est
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