Biography of William Wordsworth

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For the Scottish composer, see William Wordsworth (composer).

William Wordsworth
Portrait of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon (National Portrait Gallery).
Born	7 April 1770 Wordsworth House, Cockermouth, Kingdom of Great Britain
Died	23 April 1850 (aged 80) Cumberland, United Kingdom
Occupation	Poet
Alma mater	Cambridge University
Literary movement	Romanticism
Notable work(s)	Lyrical Ballads, Poems in Two Volumes, The Excursion, The Prelude

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.