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For the British academic and journalist 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).
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Apr 19, 2024 · William Wordsworth, English poet who was a central figure in the English Romantic revolution in poetry. He was especially known for Lyrical Ballads (1798), which he wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Learn more about Wordsworth’s life and career, including his other notable books.
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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 and a fierce advocate of using the vocabulary and speech patterns of common people in poetry.
- Tintern Abbey’ (with some notes on Lyrical Ballads) Five years have passed; five summers, with the length. Of five long winters! and again I hear. These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs.
- The Prelude. Visit here to read ‘The Prelude’ in its entirety. Around 1798–9, Coleridge began bothering Wordsworth about writing a long philosophical poem.
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality. The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be. Bound each to each by natural piety. I. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
- The World is too much with us’ The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours;
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Apr 2, 2014 · Poet William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. Wordsworth’s mother died when he was 7, and he was an orphan at 13. Despite these losses, he did well at ...
William Wordsworth. William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, on April 7, 1770. Wordsworth’s mother died when he was eight—this experience shapes much of his later work. Wordsworth attended Hawkshead Grammar School, where his love of poetry was firmly established and, it is believed, where he made his first attempts at ...
By William Wordsworth. I wandered lonely as a cloud. That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine. And twinkle on the milky way,
