William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet (1770–1850) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Wordsworth" redirects here. For other uses, see Wordsworth (disambiguation).
For the English composer, see William Wordsworth (composer). For the British academic and journalist 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).
Quick Facts Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Monarch ...
William Wordsworth | |
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Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom | |
In office 6 April 1843 – 23 April 1850 | |
Monarch | Victoria |
Preceded by | Robert Southey |
Succeeded by | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
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Born | (1770-04-07)7 April 1770 Cockermouth, Cumberland, England |
Died | 23 April 1850(1850-04-23) (aged 80) Rydal, Westmorland, England |
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Mary Hutchinson (m. 1802) |
Children | 5, including Dora |
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Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
Occupation | Poet |
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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.