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William Wordsworth
English author
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Stephen Maxfield Parrish
Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus of English, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Author of The Art of the Lyrical Ballads and others.
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William Wordsworth, (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England—died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland),
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Wordsworth, William
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BORN
April 7, 1770
Cockermouth, England
DIED
April 23, 1850 (aged 80)
Westmorland, England
TITLE / OFFICE
Poet Laureate (1843-1850)
NOTABLE WORKS
“The Solitary Reaper”
“The Prelude”
“Lyrical Ballads”
“The World Is Too Much with Us”
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
“Michael”
“The Excursion”
“Peter Bell”
“The Recluse”
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
MOVEMENT / STYLE
Romanticism
Lake poet
SUBJECTS OF STUDY
poetry
NOTABLE FAMILY MEMBERS
Sister Dorothy Wordsworth
DID YOU KNOW?
Three months after his death, Wordsworth's wife Mary published "The Prelude".
Wordsworth wrote a guidebook to the region of his home called, "A Guide through the District of the Lakes."
Wordsworth regretted his inability to fluently read modern poetic languages such as Italian and Spanish.
Synopsis. Born in England in 1770, poet William Wordsworth worked with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads (1798). ... Wordsworth also showed his affinity for nature with the famous poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." He became England's poet laureate in 1843, a role he held until his death in 1850.Jul 11, 2019
Death Date: April 23, 1850
Occupation: Poet
Birth Date: April 7, 1770