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For the English composer, see William Wordsworth (composer). For the British academic and journalist in India, see William Christopher Wordsworth.
William Wordsworth
Anonymous portrait of Wordsworth, c. 1840-50
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
(1770-04-07)7 April 1770 Cockermouth, Cumberland, England
Died
23 April 1850(1850-04-23) (aged 80) Rydal, Westmorland, England
Spouse
Mary Hutchinson
(m. 1802)
Children
5, including Dora
Relatives
Dorothy Wordsworth (sister)
Christopher Wordsworth (brother)
Richard Wordsworth (great-great-grandson)
John Wordsworth (nephew)
Alma mater
St John's College, Cambridge
Occupation
Poet
Signature
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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