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  1. May 11, 2024 · William Wordsworth (1770–1850) produced some of the greatest English poems of the late 1700s and early 1800s. In contrast to the decorum of much 18th-century verse, he wanted to relate “situations from common life” in “language really used by men,” embodying “the spontaneous overflow of feelings…recollected in tranquility ...

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  2. Dec 19, 2019 · WILLIAM WORDSWOR TH (1770 – 1850) Nikola Benin, Ph.D. William Wordsworth, regarded as the most celebrated and and influential Romantic English. poet, and as the greatest English poet after ...

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  3. William Wordsworth(1770-1850) Wordsworth, born in his beloved Lake District, was the son of an attorney. He went to school first at Penrith and then at Hawkshead Grammar school before studying, from 1787, at St John's College, Cambridge - all of which periods were later to be described vividly in The Prelude. In 1790 he went with friends on a

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  4. William Wordsworth. 1770–1850. Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library / Alamy Stock Photo. William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects. He is remembered as a poet of spiritual and epistemological speculation, a poet concerned with the human relationship to nature ...

  5. Apr 2, 2014 · QUICK FACTS. Name: William Wordsworth. Birth Year: 1770. Birth date: April 7, 1770. Birth City: Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. Birth Country: United Kingdom. Gender: Male. Best Known For: At ...

  6. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a major Romantic poet, based in the Lake District, England. His greatest work was “The Prelude” – dedicated to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Prelude is a spiritual autobiography based on Wordsworth’s travels through Europe and his observations of life. His poetry also takes inspiration from the beauty ...

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  8. 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 ...

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