William Wordsworth : Ask Biography

Portrait of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon (NPG).

Personal information

Birth date

07 April 1770

Place of birth

Wordsworth House, Cockermouth, England

Date of death

23 April 1850(age 80)

Death place

Cumberland, England

Occupation

Poet

Notable works

Lyrical Ballads, Poems in Two Volumes, The Excursion

Literary movement

Romanticism

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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 � 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.