William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English <a href="/facts/Romantic_poetry/fUrslhAh">Romantic</a> poet who, with <a href="/facts/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge/80CDXJoq">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, helped to launch the <a href="/facts/Romanticism/lfG31kE3">Romantic Age</a> in <a href="/facts/English_literature/7YWg6vJf">English literature</a> with their joint publication <a href="/facts/Lyrical_Ballads/qBjMDj9D">Lyrical Ballads</a> (1798).
Wordsworth's <a href="/facts/Masterpiece/WbIkuUFy">magnum opus</a> is generally considered to be <a href="/facts/The_Prelude/2kEosrqT">The Prelude</a>, 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 <a href="/facts/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom/86FzQU9q">Poet Laureate</a> from 1843 until his death from <a href="/facts/Pleurisy/JEHqK0wu">pleurisy</a> on 23 April 1850. He remains one of the most recognizable names in English poetry and was a key figure of the Romantic poets.

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William Wordsworth