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7 April 1770, Cockermouth, United Kingdom
Education
St. John's College, Cambridge
Poet
Major works
Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, The Solitary Reaper
Honours and Awards: Honorary Doctorate of University of Durham (1837)
Honorary Degree of University of Oxford (1838)
Poet Laureate of United Kingdom (1843)
23 April 1850, Westmorland, England
Death:23 april 1850 Westmorland england
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For the English composer, see William Wordsworth (composer).
William Wordsworth
Wordsworth on Helvellyn by Benjamin Robert Haydon.jpg
Portrait of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon (National Portrait Gallery).
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
Personal details
Born 7 April 1770
Cockermouth, Cumberland, England
Died 23 April 1850 (aged 80)
Rydal, Westmorland, England
Spouse(s) Mary Hutchinson (1802–1850; his death)
Relatives
Christopher Wordsworth (sibling)
Dorothy Wordsworth (sibling)
Dora Wordsworth (child)
Alma mater St John's College, Cambridge
Occupation Poet
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.