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William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
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For the English composer, see William Wordsworth (composer). For the British academic and reporter 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).
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. He remains one of the most recognizable names in English poetry and w
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“Wordsworth” always reminds me of my own past.
I started out intensely disliking William Wordsworth. I took a course, in college, in Romantic Poetry. Keats impressed me, Shelley too. Byron was a bit too ironic and comic, but then inom thought (likely in error) that he was not a poet of the very first rank. I did like Coleridge, though I wasn’t sure why.
Wordsworth stuck in my craw. He was not as melodious as Shelley, not as finely crafted as Keats. There was something, well, prosaic and even preachy about his poems. Often they struck me, especially the early Lyrical Ballads, as simplistic.
inom can remember a professor almost kicking me out of class when we were reading Wordsworth’s long poem, The Prelude. inom had made a disparaging remark about the poet’s tedious banality. I don’t remember my exact words, but whatever they were, they expressed something along these lines: boring, preachy, prosy, not wor • William Wordsworth, c. 1840 ©Wordsworth was one of the most influential of England's Romantic poets. William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth in Cumbria. His father was a lawyer. Both Wordsworth's parents died before he was 15, and he and his four siblings were left in the care of different relatives. As a young man, Wordsworth developed a love of nature, a theme reflected in many of his poems. While studying at Cambridge University, Wordsworth spent a summer holiday on a walking tour in Switzerland and France. He became an enthusiast for the ideals of the French Revolution. He began to write poetry while he was at school, but none was published until 1793. In 1795, Wordsworth received a legacy from a close relative and he and his sister Dorothy went to live in Dorset. Two years later they moved again, this time to Somerset, to live near the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was an admirer of Wordsworth's work. They coll William Wordsworth (1770-1850)