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William Wordsworth
Anonymous portrait of Wordsworth, c. 1840-50
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
In office
6 April 1843 – 23 April 1850
MonarchVictoria
Preceded byRobert Southey
Succeeded byAlfred, Lord Tennyson
Personal details
Born(1770-04-07)7 April 1770
Cockermouth, Cumberland, England
Died23 April 1850(1850-04-23) (aged 80)
Rydal, Westmorland, England
Spouse
Mary Hutchinson
(m. 1802)
Children5, including Dora
Relatives
  • Dorothy Wordsworth (sister)
  • Christopher Wordsworth (brother)
  • Richard Wordsworth (great-great-grandson)
  • John Wordsworth (nephew)
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
OccupationPoet
SignatureWilliam 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.

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