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William Wordsworth

Also known as Wordsworth

English Romantic poet (1770–1850)

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William Wordsworth was an English poet who lived from 1770 to 1850 and is considered one of the major figures of Romanticism, a cultural movement that emphasized emotion, nature, and imagination. His works helped shape how people think about poetry and the power of personal experience and the natural world to inspire literature.

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Instance of: human
Given name: William
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Great Britain
Place of birth: Cockermouth
Place of death: Rydal Mount
Occupation: writer
Position held: Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Religion: Anglicanism
Notable work: The Prelude
Image: Wordsworth on Helvellyn by Benjamin Robert Haydon.jpg
Residence: Wordsworth House and Garden

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writing language: English language
Commons category: William Wordsworth
date of birth: 1770-04-07
date of death: 1850-04-23
topic's main category: Category:William Wordsworth
Commons gallery: William Wordsworth
nickname: Bard of Rydal Mount
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
archives at: Harry Ransom Center
lifestyle: mysticism
Commons Creator page: William Wordsworth
ethnic group: English people
cause of death: pneumonia
name in native language: William Wordsworth
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has works in the collection: J. Paul Getty Museum
manner of death: natural causes

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Encyclopedic overview

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".

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