William Wordsworth
1770 – 1850 · aged 80
English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
- Born
- 7 Apr 1770 · Cockermouth
- Died
- 23 Apr 1850 · Rydal Mount
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- 7 Apr 1770BornBorn in Cockermouth
- 1843 – 1850RolePoet Laureate of the United Kingdom
- 23 Apr 1850DiedDied in Rydal Mount
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- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
Biography
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 in 1850. He remains one of the most recognisable names in English poetry and was a key figure among the Romantic poets.
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